Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother – but… when she became our child, the affection came.

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.

I don’t believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.

The average Hollywood film star’s ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

I believe in that old adage that ‚as goes California, so goes the country.‘

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

I would love to get Rihanna on a Khaled song. That’s my friend, but every time I’m around her, I get shy.

Men who think that a woman’s past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‚I’ll buy a million dollars‘ worth of love.‘ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe what a man says himself rather than what people say he says.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.

Within one’s own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror – and America is honored to be their friend.

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

I’ve never had a divorce, but I’ve seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can’t write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I’m able to kind of express it, or their joy.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?

I don’t think you ever really know what all you’re doing, so you have to act on faith.

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

First of all, you ask me if the God of Christians forgives one who doesn’t believe and doesn’t seek the faith. Premise that – and it’s the fundamental thing – the mercy of God has no limits if one turns to him with a sincere and contrite heart; the question for one who doesn’t believe in God lies in obeying one’s conscience.

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

I had no bad moment in my relationship with Dortmund. Not one second.

Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.

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

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.

When you listen to Ray Charles, there’s never any doubt whose voice that is.

Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

I’ll tell you one thing, since I’m married, single people look absolutely ridiculous to me.

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.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

I’m trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He’s for them and has a purpose.

You don’t sign up for a divorce when you get married. It’s very painful. But it’s taught me a great deal about myself.

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

God always has patience.

You know what, I’m very attracted to someone who makes me laugh and is that charming. Really, I could be charmed by anyone. I’m just a sucker for somebody that is charming.

Dividers seek to make themselves look or feel better by making others feel worse. They damage relationships, fracture teams and organizations, and create havoc in people’s lives.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

I am a strong believer that without justice, there is no peace. No lasting peace, anyway.

Don’t get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.

Faith is about trusting God when you have unanswered questions.

Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.