Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

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.

If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn’t make your house look any better.

The important thing is to be in love with something.

I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness.

Patience is key for getting over a breakup. That, and trailing off your interaction after the breakup.

I’ve missed out on a lot of things, going out with friends.

I’m definitely gaining new fans, and that’s the key of any success… gain more love.

I’ve… been accused of being involved with every man I’m ever seen with or worked with. Maybe I have, maybe I ain’t. I never tell if I have.

My mom, she was a very, very soft woman. It was hard for her to yell or even curse. But when it came to fighting for her kids, she found a strength she didn’t always know she had.

If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours.

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

You see, at the end of the day, my most important title is still ‚mom-in-chief.‘ My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.

My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.

Only the really plain people know about love – the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.

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

I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

I’ve had moments when I’ve thought about somebody, picked up the phone to call them and they are on the line already, and I think that maybe there’s some vibration, some connection.

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

One of the things I’ve told men over and over and over and over is if you’re being rejected by all the women that you approach, it’s not the women!

If every man loves his mother, he’s going to treat the ladies right, with love and respect.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Every time I come to Europe, I’m just as excited as I was my very first time, which was many, many years ago. I love that part of the world, and I especially love the fans.

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.

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

I think that you can love people without it being the great love.

We think when God speaks to us, there’s going to be a boom out of Heaven or we’re going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God’s talking to us all the time. He’s talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it’s the Holy Spirit talking to us.

I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.

Politics doesn’t make strange bedfellows – marriage does.

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

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

Eating is so intimate. It’s very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you’re inviting a person into your life.

I have an urge to communicate. I think I’m a change from what it would be like dating a normal guy who doesn’t talk too much.

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

Confidence, as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I loved cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.

One of the reasons I connect to the Super Bowl is that I approach my shows like an athlete.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It’s also the dangerous part and it’s an ugly emotion that hurts.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

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.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

One of the most important things you learn from the Internet is that there is no ‚them‘ out there. It’s just an awful lot of ‚us.‘

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.

I think the family movie is very important to everybody right now.

I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.

When you stop caring what people think, you lose your capacity for connection. When you’re defined by it, you lose our capacity for vulnerability.

Friends applaud, the comedy is over.

The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but the Pope has the duty, in Christ’s name, to remind the rich to help the poor, to respect them, to promote them.

Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace marked on the heart of the element by the psychical convergence of the universe upon itself.

I always wanted a great love affair: something that feels big and full, really honest, and enough. No moment should feel slight, false, or a little off. For me, it had to be everything.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

A friend is nothing but a known enemy.

Everything is clearer when you’re in love.