He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

I married my best friend that happens to be a girl.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

The foolish man conceives the idea of ‚self.‘ The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of ‚self;‘ thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

I was never a boy magnet at school. There was always the girl all the guys liked and wanted to date, but it was never me.

Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.

Everything is clearer when you’re in love.

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

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

I was inspired to spend an entire year – my 65th year – reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu’s messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

Really, who you are is defined by the people who you know – not even the people that you know, but the people you spend time with and the people that you love and the people that you work with. I guess we show your friends in your profile, but that’s kind of different from the information you put in your profile.

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

I have many regrets, and I’m sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret… if you have any sense, and if you don’t regret them, maybe you’re stupid.

There are no rules when it comes to love.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

Making your dad happy is – especially for an Italian Catholic girl, I’ll tell you – it feels really good.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

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.

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

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.

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

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.

There is a ‚sanctity‘ involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that’s when I think life is over.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

Ever since I first came here in 1963 to fight Henry Cooper, I have loved the people of England.

When you face a ‚performance‘ that might provoke the ‚I’m scared‘ response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It’s more fun than ‚Dancing with the Stars!‘

I really didn’t consider myself happy or unhappy.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

I want to be a man who is truthful and who won’t let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, ‚Here I am. This is me.‘ I feel there’s something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

My wife doesn’t even want to spend 2 hours with me.

All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they’ll send you the nicest clothes. Nothing better than walking into your dad’s restaurant and seeing a smile on his face and knowing that your mom and dad and your sister are real proud of you.

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?

Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.

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

I’m too busy acting like I’m not Naive. I’ve seen it all, I was here first.

If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I’m not leading them to some false God or something like that.

There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we’re blood.