I don’t want to get into it, but if you know someone, it doesn’t mean you agree with everything they say or they do.

No matter how beautiful a woman might be, you’re always threatened by certain… You’re always threatened by other women, period.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

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.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true – it is all true.

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.

Lovers often invest their first meetings with retrospective significance, as if to try to conjure the elements of the numinous out of the stubborn witness of the everyday.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.

My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people’s kids than I did my own.

Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related.

Things don’t have to change the world to be important.

I’ve learned that usually, the less I know about other people, the better off I am.

So let’s be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.

It’s probably the worst feeling in the world, when you’re deeply and madly in love with a woman and you know she’s not feeling you the same way, and you don’t know why.

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

What’s real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

Within one’s own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

The worst men often give the best advice.

I like gaps; all my stories have gaps. It seems this is the way people’s lives present themselves.

I suppose for a very long time I’ve been trying to understand how it is that people might make sense out of their lives and make meaning and make their lives meaningful in the face of the trouble that life brings.

Everything is funny, as long as it’s happening to somebody else.

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

If you would judge, understand.

We’re not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

There’s people that appreciate what I do; there’s people that criticize it.

Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

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

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

I’d like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don’t have misconceptions – they understand. I believe that.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

Youth is wasted on the young.

You pity the fool because you don’t want to beat up a fool! You know, pity is between sorry and mercy. See, if you pity him, you know, you won’t have to beat him up. So that’s why I say fools, you gotta give another chance because they don’t know no better. That’s why I pity them!

Men want to make women happy.

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.