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

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.

That’s what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he’s wise.

To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

Imagination decides everything.

I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?

I don’t want to spend money the club doesn’t have; I don’t want to hold a player that doesn’t want to stay.

When I take action, I’m not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It’s going to be decisive.

A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

Single life is so overrated.

I don’t sleep much. I don’t sleep much – I work, I work, I work.

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.

When you’re a chef, you graze. You never get a chance to sit down and eat. They don’t actually sit down and eat before you cook. So when I finish work, the first thing I’ll do, and especially when I’m in New York, I’ll go for a run. And I’ll run 10 or 15k on my – and I run to gain my appetite.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

It used to be the case, like you’d switch jobs, and then maybe you wouldn’t keep in touch with all the people that you knew from that old job, just because it was too hard. But one of the things that Facebook does is it makes it really easy to just stay in touch with all these people.

Marriage is the most wonderful thing ever.

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

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

My wife and I don’t compete. We know each other’s preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That’s what friends do.

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

I don’t think you ever really know what all you’re doing, so you have to act on faith.

A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices. It must affect them not just as a song, but as a lifestyle.

One of the key qualities a leader must possess is the ability to detach from the chaos, mayhem, and emotions in a situation and make good, clear decisions based on what is actually happening.

I’m very free-spirited.

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

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

I used to take my short stories to girls‘ homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?

I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.

People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.

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

You have to just make the choices you make in life. I made the choices I made because I believed they were right for me.

You are doomed to make choices. This is life’s greatest paradox.

I’m not sure if it’s good to have freedom or not. I’m really confused now.

I don’t care whether you’re driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you’re headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. That’s what the American people called for in November, and that’s what we intend to deliver.

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

I think I became more productive through not having children. I never really had the desire to have them. My husband didn’t want them either, so it worked out well.

I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it’s a better way of telling the stories.

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

Never get out of bed before noon.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‚I’ll buy a million dollars‘ worth of love.‘ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

A director makes 100 decisions an hour. Students ask me how you know how to make the right decision, and I say to them, ‚If you don’t know how to make the right decision, you’re not a director.‘

Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.

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.

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.

Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life.

It is better to be deceived by one’s friends than to deceive them.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, ‚What are we going to do?‘ but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that’s nothing.

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.