Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.

No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend’s folly.

I never promise anything. I don’t promise anything to my mum. I don’t promise anything to the supporters.

Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It’s also the dangerous part and it’s an ugly emotion that hurts.

I will never be happy without having someone. Going to sleep alone kills me.

Enemies are so stimulating.

Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

I’ve learned that we all change constantly. It’s rare to find that person who is growing with you in the same way at the same time, who encourages you to grow.

Confidentially, the type of male I find most enjoyable for a friend is one who has enough fire and assurance to speak up for his convictions.

I’m good friends with Jay Leno, good friends with Ed O’Neill, Melanie Fiona and Russell Simmons.

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

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

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

Demonstrate to the world, there is ‚No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy‘ than a U.S. Marine.

All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I’d worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: ‚Don’t hide these things from me. I’d rather you ask me these things straight out, and I’ll answer all your questions.‘

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own.

There’s only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I’ll get married again.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‚I’ll buy a million dollars‘ worth of love.‘ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.

I became a people-watcher when I lost all my friends when I was 12.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

I had a period in my life where I decided that I would never be bored again and that, if I had any free time at all, I would make plans, and I would always be doing things. It actually was great for a year or so, but then I lost all of my friends.

I would be married, but I’d have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

As I get older, I tend to put more into family than I used to.

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we’ll fail, and sometimes we’ll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you’ll find support.

It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Keeping score is for games, not friendships.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

You’ve got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.