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

Ever since I dated a woman, I know what it is to grab a curve on a woman’s body. Skinny’s not fine when the lights are low.

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.

I’ve told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn’t kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Most of the people that I deal with are human. So I’ve had a lot of experience with that.

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there’s nothing really to talk about.

I searched for years I found no love. I’m sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.

I think I have to trust that you end up with the person you’re supposed to end up with, and that everything in between is there to teach you stuff.

My mother did not like children.

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

Know your worth! People always act like they’re doing more for you than you’re doing for them.

You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.

All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader.

Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery.

You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

Prayer is simply talking to God like a friend and should be the easiest thing we do each day.

My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

I was called a terrorist yesterday, but when I came out of jail, many people embraced me, including my enemies, and that is what I normally tell other people who say those who are struggling for liberation in their country are terrorists.

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

Lord Jesus, we come just as we are; this is how we came at first, and this is how we come still, with all our failures, with all our transgressions, with all and everything that is what it ought not to be, we come to Thee.

I’ve looked on many women with lust. I’ve committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.

I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.

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

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

I read everything, but generally more fact than fiction – especially autobiographies and biographies. I’ve read ‚Long Walk to Freedom‘ by Nelson Mandela at least twice on holiday. Every time, I’m totally awed by his vision, strength and forgiveness. I feel honoured to have got to know him and his wonderful wife Graca over the years.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

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

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

Sadat was a great and good man, and his most bitter and dangerous enemies were people who were obsessed with hatred for his peaceful goals.

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‚understand‘ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

I’m working at trying to be a Christian, and that’s serious business. It’s like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy – it’s serious business.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

So many people live with anger and unforgiveness, and many of them are Christians.

Sooner or later we’re all someone’s dog.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

I’ve never had a dislike for men. I’ve been badly treated by some. But I’ve been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.

I’m the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that’s horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it.

I never thought I’d have children; I never thought I’d be in love, I never thought I’d meet the right person. Having come from a broken home – you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don’t look for them.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

Though lovers be lost, love shall not.

To me, if you’re trying to impress a girl, get a date, they’re gonna like that more because you’re a confident guy. That’s what it comes down to.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.

Those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.