Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

Friends accept you the way you are.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

Sometimes you can’t prioritise family and you feel guilty.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Sometimes I’ve been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad.

In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged.

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

Patience is key for getting over a breakup. That, and trailing off your interaction after the breakup.

Remember, it’s as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally.

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

All of the people in my life whom I consider to be close friends or colleagues are good thinkers.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

Me and my dad are friends. We’re cool. I’ll never be disappointed again, because I don’t expect anything anymore from him. I just let him exist, and that’s how we get along.

I’m pretty sure I don’t have any songs that are about how much I love someone. They’re all either about, like, ‚I hate you,‘ or ‚You make me hate me.‘

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

One of the most terrible feelings in the world is knowing that someone else doesn’t like you. Especially when you don’t know what you’ve done to deserve it.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

It was weird to be married; you kind of lose your identity. You’re suddenly somebody’s wife. And you’re like, ‚Oh, I’m half of a couple now. I’ve lost me.‘

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.

Like associates with like.

Writing is a solitary experience. I’m extremely superstitious. If I talk about the book or name the title out loud before finishing, I feel the energy I need to write will be drained. It’s so intimate, I can’t even share it with my wife.

If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.

I think we all change each other’s paths. I don’t know which law idea that is in physics, but I don’t think any of us can live without affecting one another.

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dividers seek to make themselves look or feel better by making others feel worse. They damage relationships, fracture teams and organizations, and create havoc in people’s lives.

It’s fun to be hopelessly in love. It’s dangerous, but it’s fun.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

I’ll tell you one thing, since I’m married, single people look absolutely ridiculous to me.

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

People ask, ‚Should I call you Sir Hopkins?‘ But I say, ‚No. Call me Tony,‘ because it’s too much of a lift-up.

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

It’s very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.

In married life three is company and two none.

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?