Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

Lovers often invest their first meetings with retrospective significance, as if to try to conjure the elements of the numinous out of the stubborn witness of the everyday.

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

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

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

In one day, I have times where I’m feeling great, I feel like I love my life, and then 2:30 rolls around and I’m the angriest man alive. My wife sees it.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

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

A woman can’t be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can’t do it by herself.

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

Everything is clearer when you’re in love.

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

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that’s called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.

Obviously, you go through a lot of emotional turmoil in a divorce.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

He who hath many friends hath none.

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

I don’t see myself as beautiful, because I can see a lot of flaws. People have really odd opinions. They tell me I’m skinny, as if that’s supposed to make me happy.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

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. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we’re even alive at all.

Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Love is a serious mental disease.

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

I wasn’t a pretty girl. I was six feet tall at 15, you know.

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

Corruption is just another form of tyranny.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

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

I didn’t think Marilyn Monroe was beautiful. It used to worry me. I thought maybe I’m not put together like the other chaps.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

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.

Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

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.

Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other’s speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

Honestly, I could care less about other people’s opinions about me.

If people wonder, yes, Hillary Clinton is my friend. She has been a friend to me and Barack and Malia and Sasha, and Bill and Chelsea have been embracing and supportive from the very day my husband took the oath of office.

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.

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we’re blood.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it’s time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

You don’t want to live your life and then meet someone. You want to share your life with someone. That’s what I’m missing right now.

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.