Friends accept you the way you are.

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

I’m not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We’re not ‚celebrities‘, whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or ugly, we are our words. They’re what people meet.

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

I do love the films I’ve done in the past. I work hard in my movies and my friends work hard and we’re trying to make people laugh and I’m very proud of that.

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

Me and my dad are friends. We’re cool. I’ll never be disappointed again, because I don’t expect anything anymore from him. I just let him exist, and that’s how we get along.

I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

If women were particular about men’s characters, they would never get married at all.

I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

A ‚No‘ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‚Yes‘ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you – black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.

When you realize who you live for, and who’s important to please, a lot of people will actually start living. I am never going to get caught up in that. I’m gonna look back on my life and say that I enjoyed it – and I lived it for me.

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That’s a part of it.

You see, I am trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across – not to just depict life – or criticize it – but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me, you actually experience the thing. You can’t do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.

When we’re looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.

I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.

Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

That’s what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he’s wise.

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

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

One of the most terrible feelings in the world is knowing that someone else doesn’t like you. Especially when you don’t know what you’ve done to deserve it.

The only thing I know is I ain’t changing my brand. I know what I believe. I’m confident in what I know. And I’m gonna say it. And if folks like it, wonderful. If they don’t like it, I understand.

I can’t relate to lazy people. We don’t speak the same language. I don’t understand you. I don’t want to understand you.

My experiences in life are getting bigger and better. The more stuff I do, the more stuff I talk about – having kids, traveling, going through relationship problems, dealing with things in my own family. All that stuff builds character.

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

Be content to seem what you really are.

I don’t feel much pressure to fit in. I never have. I’ve always just wanted to do my thing. I have really good friends and good family, and if I don’t fit in somewhere else, I fit in at home.

Sometimes, people can be extraordinarily judgmental and closed-minded to anyone different or special, which is why it’s so hard for young people in this day and age to be comfortable enough in their own skin to not listen to the people picking on them.

All you need is love.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

You pay a certain penalty for going your own way. A lot of people think you’re nuts, and you’re not as popular with girls as you should be.

There’s always going to be people who don’t understand or accept the united science, and I will just ignore them, as I’m only acting and communicating on the science.

If I held you any closer I would be on the other side of you.

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.

If we’re really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what’s causing us to do what we do.

Intimates are predestined.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems.