I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

For my own part, I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen the representative of our country. He is a bird of bad moral character. He does not get his living honestly.

Keeping score is for games, not friendships.

Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

I thank God I’m myself and for the life I’m given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.

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

We do not judge the people we love.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.

I think I have had so much blessing – I’ve had my brother, who was brilliant – I think my family came closest to making a genius when they made my brother – Bailey was just all of that. He loved me.

I just got to feel that whoever I marry has some real regard for me.

I’m sick of the tabloids‘ saying I obsess over guys. Why would you obsess over guys? They don’t like it.

There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin‘ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

Great and good are seldom the same man.

You don’t want to live your life and then meet someone. You want to share your life with someone. That’s what I’m missing right now.

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.

Disagreement is something normal.

You bring children into the world. You love them with heart and soul.

It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

You can draw inspiration from anything. If you’re a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you’re casually talking to says something that makes you so mad – you can create an entire scenario around that.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

‚Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.

What the heck is true love? I remember feeling, back when I was 12 and ‚going‘ with this girl, ‚Is this true love?‘

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

I don’t like people going behind my back.

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

I have noticed… that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.

I’ve… been accused of being involved with every man I’m ever seen with or worked with. Maybe I have, maybe I ain’t. I never tell if I have.

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

It’s a funny thing that when a man hasn’t anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken. More: You have ceded them power.

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

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

Fame may go by and – so long, I’ve had you.

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

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

I’ve seen firsthand that being president doesn’t change who you are. It reveals who you are.

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

I like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It’s also the dangerous part and it’s an ugly emotion that hurts.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

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.

While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have now passed the worst, and with continued unity of effort, we shall rapidly recover. There is one certainty of the future of a people of the resources, intelligence and character of the people of the United States – that is, prosperity.

I don’t know what’s better gettin‘ laid or gettin‘ paid.

Men’s vows are women’s traitors!

Absolutely not. I have no problem with commitment. In fact, I love having someone in my life.