Few are drawn to the person whom others avoid and neglect; people gather around those who have already attracted interest.

Ultimately, I’m not doing that much. I’m only doing what a human being who feels wants to do – in my way, without stepping out of my flow, while staying in my lane. Without, I guess, boring people.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Folks don’t like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.

I’d love to date somebody cool, fun, funny.

Absolutely not. I have no problem with commitment. In fact, I love having someone in my life.

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.

Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

It always seems odd to me that the fundamental laws of physics, when discovered, can appear in so many different forms that are not apparently identical at first, but, with a little mathematical fiddling, you can show the relationship.

The flesh, or human nature, is generally lazy and self-centered.

A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I’m writing about New York.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

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

My theory is 98 percent of all human endeavor is killing time.

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people’s happiness.

We do not see people as they are, but as they appear to us. And these appearances are usually misleading.

We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.

I’m pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people’s bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.

Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That’s definitely my first response. I think change is more likely to happen if both partners have common language and a shared lens to see problems.

Everybody, to some extent, manipulates. Even children learn to cry when they want something. There are all kinds of subtle things we do to get others to follow our lead, not bother us, and so on.

She’s been married so many times she has rice marks on her face.

Love is a state of being.

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

Neither the Christian attitude of love for all mankind nor humane hopes for an organized society must cause us to forget that the ‚human stratum‘ may not be homogeneous.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

When your mother asks, ‚Do you want a piece of advice?‘ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

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

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.

My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication – it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness – it is all that I have – and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.

Creative people don’t behave very well generally. If you’re looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you’re gonna be depressed real fast. I don’t have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She’s my first priority.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

No man wants to settle down. It happens. Eventually you’re going to bump into somebody that makes you go, ‚Hmm, I don’t mind seeing this person every day.‘

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

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?

Is it not important to find out how to listen not only to what is being said but to everything – to the noise in the streets, to the chatter of birds, to the noise of the tramcar, to the restless sea, to the voice of your husband, to your wife, to your friends, to the cry of a baby?

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!

I’m not denyin‘ the women are foolish. God Almighty made ‚em to match the men.

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

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

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure – the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

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.‘

There are no rules when it comes to love.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

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.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

I like a man who grins when he fights.

Life’s too short to deal with other people’s insecurities.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

I’ve done a lot of things I’m not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that.