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

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

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

You can write a song about being in love with someone, but you don’t have to be in love with anyone.

We’re hardwired for connection. There’s no arguing with the bioscience. But we can want it so badly we’re trying to hot-wire it.

You send a boy to school in order to make friends – the right sort.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

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

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

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

I don’t like people going behind my back.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn’t say I lived in a ghetto; I’d say I lived in the ‚hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now.

I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don’t know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

If you judge, investigate.

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.

I met Woz when I was 13, at a friend’s garage. He was about 18. He was, like, the first person I met who knew more electronics than I did at that point. We became good friends, because we shared an interest in computers and we had a sense of humor. We pulled all kinds of pranks together.

Quitting is the easiest thing to do.

Mostly, my flying has been solo, but the preparation for it wasn’t. Without my husband’s help and encouragement, I could not have attempted what I have. Ours has been a contented and reasonable partnership, he with his solo jobs and I with mine. But always with work and play together, conducted under a satisfactory system of dual control.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

You can’t have it all, all at once. Who – man or woman – has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

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

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

It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.

A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.

When in doubt tell the truth.

My family is very good about visiting me, and other friends as well.

The biggest mistake we made as a company was betting too much on HTML5.

The buck stops here!

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

It is fun to be in the same decade with you.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

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.

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

Action is character.

I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

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.

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.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane… There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

There are always people always asking you for something. But I feel like I have a foundation. I have a supporting cast where it doesn’t bother me too much.

The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they’re gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you’re going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.

Crankiness is at the essence of all comedy. My wife and I were discussing the different types of cranky. There’s entertaining cranky, annoying cranky, angry cranky.