Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I’m so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don’t have the guts to take their names out of the book.

I don’t think I’m supposed to boss other people around just because I’m a so-called celebrity or star. I hate that when people act that way. No one deserves it. I’ve seen it happen. I don’t call those people out – they know who they are. Some enjoy that reputation.

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

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.

This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

A friend doesn’t go on a diet because you are fat.

It’s true that I’ve never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

Life’s too short to deal with other people’s insecurities.

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.

Physical elegance, which is what I am talking about here, comes from the body. This is no superficial matter, but rather the way that man found to honour the way he places his two feet on the ground.

As a writer, as a creator, I’m giving you my experiences. But just take what I give you. You ain’t got to pry beyond that.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

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

Politics doesn’t make strange bedfellows – marriage does.

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Sooner or later we’re all someone’s dog.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

People ask, ‚Should I call you Sir Hopkins?‘ But I say, ‚No. Call me Tony,‘ because it’s too much of a lift-up.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

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

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

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

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

I’m not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.

If I made a commitment, I stood by that commitment – and try to make it real. Because when you become leaders, the most important thing you have is your word, your trust. That’s where respect comes from.

I respect Chris Brown. I’d like to call myself a friend – I don’t know if I’m allowed to do that.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we’re even alive at all.

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

There’s one advantage in having been around as long as I have. Everybody in the Senate knows me, and – I’m going to say something presumptuous, to repeat myself – I think most respect me.

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

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don’t know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.

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

I don’t eat with beautiful women alone.

You can’t trust very many people.

I hope I would not be so arrogant as to doubt anyone’s religion or belief.

All you need to do to be my friend is like me.

I don’t have a type. I don’t have a specific kind of human being. It’s just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I’ve ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.

It is not so much our friends‘ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

All you need is love.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

I do not recognize the right of the public to break in the front door of a man’s private life in order to satisfy the gaze of the curious… I do not think it right to dissect living men even for the advancement of science. So far as I am concerned, I prefer a post mortem examination to vivisection without anaesthetics.

The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I’m willing to show you. In you, it’s courage and daring. In me, it’s weakness.

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

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

When I was five, I think, that’s when I started wanting to be an actress. I loved to play. I didn’t like the world around me because it was kind of grim, but I loved to play house. It was like you could make your own boundaries.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.