Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

Ranking among the greatest Christmas movie classics, ‚It’s a Wonderful Life‘ tells a beautiful story about the priceless value of relationships.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

Even though I write about the human race, the further away from them, the better I feel. Two miles is great; two thousand miles is beautiful.

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

What the heck is true love? I remember feeling, back when I was 12 and ‚going‘ with this girl, ‚Is this true love?‘

Even Hubble hasn’t found yet the end of this universe, and we don’t know that it has any end.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

When the people you love are gone, you’re alone.

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Biran.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

You just feel a little odd when you don’t get your kind of food. Fortunately, there are Indian restaurants all over the world.

I was adored once too.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it’s a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.

My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we’ve had a chance to see a lot of interesting stuff.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

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.

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

Often people become our friend or follower with an undercurrent of resentment in our having more success than they have. They secretly desire the opportunity to take us down a notch; they have a nose for any misstep on our part they can exploit.

There have been times that I’ve wept as I’ve gone from city to city and I’ve seen how far people have wandered from God.

Our focus needs to be less on what our legacy’s going to be or how we can control each other and more how we can give to each other.

Life is an adventure, it’s not a package tour.

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

I have a really close relationship with Mike Bloomberg.

The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it – and sometimes three.

Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.

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

I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

My father wasn’t a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher – one of those Victorians, hard as iron – but my dad was tough enough.

Within one’s own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.

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

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

I love to travel, but hate to arrive.

I’ve been to Uganda and to North Korea and to Eritrea, countless horror spots around the world.

I love Africa, and Ulusaba, our home in South Africa, is pretty special. It’s on a rocky hill overlooking the bush, and from your room, you can see lions stalking zebras by the waterhole.

There was one incident at a movie theater where my girl got mad at these guys who were talking behind us. I never looked back there, but she was like, ‚Will you all just shut up!‘ And I just got up and moved three rows in front. She was like, ‚What are you doing?!‘ I was like, ‚You better get up here! I don’t play the fighting games.‘

I’m not the sort of person who gives up on things. The first time we crossed the Atlantic in the balloon, it crashed, and we went on and did the Pacific. First time we crossed the Atlantic in a boat, it sank, and we went on and got the record. So, generally speaking, we will pick ourselves up, brush ourselves down, and carry on.

If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

Wives are people who feel they don’t dance enough.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

If I’m in Rome for only 48 hours, I would consider it a sin against God to not eat cacio e pepe, the most uniquely Roman of pastas, in some crummy little joint where Romans eat. I’d much rather do that than go to the Vatican. That’s Rome to me.

When you are younger, you want to do everything, and you go haywire.

There’s a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more.

I don’t have to ‚freedom-kiss‘ my wife when what I really want to do is French-kiss her.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love – first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.

When all the routines and details and the human bores get on our nerves, we just yearn to go away from here to somewhere else. To go fishing is a sound, a valid, and an accepted reason for an escape. It requires no explanation.

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.