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

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

All mankind love a lover.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

I’ve never been a boyfriend kind of girl.

We’ve got to dumb America up again.

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related.

My dad was never married. He was kind of a rolling stone. But he was never disrespectful. At the same time, even though he had women in his life when I was a kid, there wasn’t any consistency.

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

I want someone who can trust that my big hands are going to take care of them.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

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.

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

I don’t feel that I’m explaining the world or teaching people anything. And I’m not trying to be a mirror, showing them what’s really going on the world. All I’m trying to do is think of stuff that’s funny, just like when I’m kidding around with my friends.

Who, being loved, is poor?

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

As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

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.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.

I spend a lot of time just, you know, with my girlfriend and my dog. And I mean, we don’t have a lot of furniture in our house, so it’s really simple. And we’re trying to build products for everyone in the world, right. And you don’t want to get isolated to do that.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

I think we’re doing a dreadful job of educating.

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.

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

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.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.

I haven’t gone out of my way to seek advice from people I don’t know.

I make friends faster and easier than journalists.

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

I never enjoyed school and I was never that good at school so leaving wasn’t the biggest thing, but the social aspect of school, leaving your friends, you lose contact with them a bit and now I have more friends at the race track than the friends I keep in touch with at school.

If I wouldn’t have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.

A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.

Education is important because it prepares you for life.

One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.

If you like a person you say ‚let’s go into business together.‘ Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don’t mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That’s not power. That’s just corruption.

Talking to a player helps, but in our sport the majority of learning happens from watching another player. You pick up things like being punctual, being nice to everyone, making sure you give your 100 per cent even in training.

Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.

Twitter is great to connect with fans and be transparent. I enjoy that aspect about it. But really, I’m still trying to figure it out.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It’s like riding a bicycle or typing. If you’re willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.

You’re unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.

If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

It’s so much easier to like people, and to let people in, to trust them until they prove that you should do otherwise. The alternative is being an iceberg.

We never love a person, but only qualities.

Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource – the minds of our children.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.