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

Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

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

A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit’s aid than he can create a world.

One of life’s terrible truths is that women like guys who seem to know what they’re doing.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we’ll fail, and sometimes we’ll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you’ll find support.

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls, but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd. Of course, I expect this, but the knife still cuts.

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.

If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.

I remember when I was in high school I didn’t have a new dress for each special occasion. The girls would bring the fact to my attention, not always too delicately. The boys, however, never bothered with the subject. They were my friends, not because of the size of my wardrobe but because they liked me.

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

She’s been married so many times she has rice marks on her face.

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth – often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

I’m more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

Men exist for the sake of one another.

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

Brad was a huge surprise to me. I think we were both the last two people who were looking for a relationship. I certainly wasn’t. I was quite content to be a single mom with Mad.

MySpace is my wife… Facebook is my mistress.

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.

I think, a lot of times when you meet someone, you feel like you need to appear like you’re not interested in them so that they’ll be more interested in you. But what happens when you start showing him that you actually like him? What’s he gonna do then? Play the tape forward; how do you keep a guy like that? I don’t want to sign up for that.

We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women… no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

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

Religion, born of the earth’s need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man, but the whole of mankind.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

There’s a rebel lying deep in my soul.

I don’t spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that’s how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.

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

Men freely believe that which they desire.

This thing comes to me, not by the hearing of the ear, but by my own personal experience: I know of a surety that Jesus manifests Himself unto His people as He doth not unto the world.

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.

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.

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

There’s been some research in cognitive science, I’m told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it’s white noise.

I’ve done a lot of things I’m not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.

Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.