I don’t keep people around me that aren’t family. You don’t get to stay. Unless you’re eating at the table with us, you’re not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.

If someone is right for you, you’ll know it.

If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.

We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

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

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

The kindness that’s been shown to me, by doctors as well as my family and my friends, it’s really saved my life.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

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

My love is a hummingbird sitting that quiet moment on the bough, as the same cat crouches.

My grandfather once ventured upon publishing a volume of hymns. I never heard anyone speak in their favour or argue that they ought to have been sung in the congregation. In that volume, he promised a second if the first should prove acceptable. We forgive him the first collection because he did not inflict another.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

I’ve been careful in love. I’ve been careless in love. And I’ve had adventures I wouldn’t trade for anything.

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

We’re a blip in the existence of the universe, and we’re constantly trying to pull each other down. Not doing things to help each other.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

My friends, there are no friends.

A true man hates no one.

We can succeed only by concert. It is not, ‚Can any of us imagine better,‘ but, ‚Can we all do better?‘

Life guided me to being a bodyguard, protecting people, then in the movies, so I’m happy with everything because basically all I ever wanted to do was be a good son and take care of my mother.

My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that’s not so bad; but New York City?

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship – never.

I delayed my father’s funeral because of cricket.

The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author’s world.

Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.

Few are drawn to the person whom others avoid and neglect; people gather around those who have already attracted interest.

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life.

When you find a guy who is powerful, a big father figure, you latch onto him immediately.

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

Every natural object is a conductor of divinity and only by coming into contact with them… may we be filled with the Holy Ghost.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

My mother told me, ‚Son, nobody else but God knows.‘ And that’s what I’m about – reaching out to the people, crying with them, giving them hope. Visiting the hospital, visiting the kids with cancer, visiting the adults, and stuff like that. That’s what I do.

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

Me only have one ambition, y’know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together – black, white, Chinese, everyone – that’s all.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

If you want to reach the top, don’t run over others. Likely, the only way you’ll reach the top is to be carried there by others.

Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.

One of the things I’ve told men over and over and over and over is if you’re being rejected by all the women that you approach, it’s not the women!

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

I give thanks to God and to all the people in the U.K. who have supported me over the years.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

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.

A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend – and he’s a priest.

Every man’s reputation proceeds from those of his own household.

You can’t have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

Sucking up to the biggies won’t get us anywhere.

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

A president can ask for reconciliation in the racial conflict that divides Americans. But reconciliation comes only from the hearts of people.

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.

Ultimately, who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.