I don’t like being alone.

If you’re talking to a man who wouldn’t fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you’re talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.

It’s always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you’re seeing the most beautiful thing on God’s Earth.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.

Sometimes you can’t prioritise family and you feel guilty.

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

You can’t trust very many people.

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can’t get it out, I start feeling bad about myself – a lot of self-loathing.

Love is an interesting thing.

Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.

I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems.

To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

I’ve laid my friends bare.

Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another.

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

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

You don’t always have to be doing something. You can just be, and that’s plenty.

Part of our tradition as black women is that we are universalists. Black children, yellow children, red children, brown children, that is the black woman’s normal, day-to-day relationship. In my family alone, we are about four different colors.

You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they’re not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don’t care about money, and that’s not my problem.

One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.

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

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

I’m kind of claustrophobic… It’s not even like enclosed spaces. It’s like I hate being stuck in one band, you know? Just being stuck is the biggest drag, for fear that, you know, just that you can’t get out.

I’m not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I’m the girl who rarely has a boyfriend.

Everyone has been in love, at some point or another.

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

I was going to McDonald’s and Taco Bell every day. The kids behind the counter knew me – it wouldn’t even faze them. Or I’d sit up at Denny’s or Big Boy and just eat by myself. It was sad. I got so heavy that people started to not recognize me.

I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.

Funny is the world I live in. You’re funny, I’m interested. You’re not funny, I’m not interested.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

I’m the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

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

I don’t have many sad days.

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

I am in my own head most of the time.

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

I don’t need therapy. I’m not going to see a therapist; comedy acts as my therapy. I put my problems out there. I talk about them. I talk about everything before anybody has a chance.

We all get weary sometimes, and we tend to think that life is what makes us weary.

My husband says I look like a Q-tip.

Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It’s the magic sauce.