I have a family, loving aunts, and a good home. No, on the surface I seem to have everything except my one true friend. All I think about when I’m with friends is having a good time. I can’t bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. We don’t seem to be able to get any closer, and that’s the problem.

Love is an interesting thing.

I was also a junior and I know how you learn from seniors, that’s how you follow. Speeches don’t work.

The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.

She would have thrived as a grandmother. I know how much she would have contributed to their lives, and I am sad they will miss out on that.

It pays to know the enemy – not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

I remember when I was in high school I didn’t have a new dress for each special occasion. The girls would bring the fact to my attention, not always too delicately. The boys, however, never bothered with the subject. They were my friends, not because of the size of my wardrobe but because they liked me.

When I cook for my family on Christmas, I make feijoada, a South American dish of roasted and smoked meats like ham, pork, beef, lamb, and bacon – all served with black beans and rice. It’s festive but different.

She got her looks from her father. He’s a plastic surgeon.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn’t let them into the family brokerage business.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That’s a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.

I was totally dominated and revered my father. I admired everything he did. He was a great sports person. He loved me. I was his only boy at that time, before my brother Billy came along.

Have you ever thought how humiliating and distressing it was to be placed upon a sphere? For friendship it is a boon never to be able to be further apart than the antipodes. But suppose that you are leaving together to go on and on; it is impossible. To go beyond a certain point is to return to where you began.

In our home there was always prayer – aloud, proud and unapologetic.

The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.

I used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it’s funny. And it’s not funny. It’s not.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

I don’t like people going behind my back.

I always wanted to know, and I always used to daydream, about what it would be like to stand on a really big stage and sing songs for a lot of people, songs that I had written… Daydreaming was kind of my No. 1 thing when I was little, because I didn’t have much of a social life going on.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.

I don’t really know that much about love, it turns out.

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that’s how they’ll react. But if you say, ‚We want peace, we want stability,‘ we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.

Occasionally I’ve seen children become heavy-handed and insensitive when dealing with their aging parents, and it only caused resentment and hard feelings.

A person hears only what they understand.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

I was not raised with wealth or resources or any social standing to speak of.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

You’ve got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

War is what happens when language fails.

My dream is to be World Lightweight Champion in the UFC. Have more money than I know what to do with. And have a great life for my kids, grandkids, and everyone in my family.

We can be civil. We can still be friends, and be Democrats and Republicans, and have different views.

I’ll never make it, it will never happen, because they’re never going to hear me ‚cause they’re screaming all the time.

I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?

And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I think, I don’t think anyone in my family would really feel I’d done them an injustice by saying that. We didn’t see many people. There were many books. It was as if I wanted to get away from home.

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

Some animals utter a loud cry. Some are silent, and others have a voice, which in some cases may be expressed by a word; in others, it cannot. There are also noisy animals and silent animals, musical and unmusical kinds, but they are mostly noisy about the breeding season.

I have a full and satisfying life. My work and my family are very important to me.

My father opened a restaurant. It’s so amazing… it’s so freaking delicious, but I’m telling you I gain five pounds every time I go in there.

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.

I don’t understand why or how we can bully each other.

You know, my sister sings, my brother plays drums in my band. My whole family is a bunch of musicians.