Here’s what I’ve learned about deal-breakers. If you have enough natural chemistry with someone, you overlook every single thing that you said would break the deal.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

They know enough who know how to learn.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad.

Your friend is your needs answered.

I learned to fly a few years ago in England. It’s the only place I’m completely alone – up in the air, detached from everything.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

I’ll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it’s disappointing.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it’s time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

I searched for years I found no love. I’m sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

I have a family, loving aunts, and a good home. No, on the surface I seem to have everything except my one true friend. All I think about when I’m with friends is having a good time. I can’t bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. We don’t seem to be able to get any closer, and that’s the problem.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

My mother did not like children.

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

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.

Education is hanging around until you’ve caught on.

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

My family is very good about visiting me, and other friends as well.

I play piano and ukulele, and I taught myself those things just because I wanted to play them.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

I’m not really book-smart.

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

I’m not denyin‘ the women are foolish. God Almighty made ‚em to match the men.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

You can’t have it all, all at once. Who – man or woman – has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.

Before I look stupid and not know what a word means or how to pronounce it, I’ll stop the whole production: ‚Hey, real quick, guys. Define this word for me. Somebody.‘

If I held you any closer I would be on the other side of you.

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

Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.

People were saying that David Geffen and I had gotten married and it just blew me away. Not that they thought I was gay, but that they thought I could land a guy that hot.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

If I get stuck, I look at a book that tells me how someone else did it. I turn the pages, and then I say, ‚Oh, I forgot that bit,‘ then close the book and carry on. Finally, after you’ve figured out how to do it, you read how they did it and find out how dumb your solution is and how much more clever and efficient theirs is!

Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.

I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can’t be locked up with anyone for too long.

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it’s to have any meaning in this world – and stop being its apologist.

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

Obviously, you go through a lot of emotional turmoil in a divorce.

I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.

Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

You can’t have a relationship with a device whose limits are unknown to you, because without limits, it keeps becoming something else.

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

When one has finished building one’s house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way – before one began.

It’s fun to be hopelessly in love. It’s dangerous, but it’s fun.

Alimony – the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.