I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Women don’t try to use me.

One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what’s really happening to me, even if it’s a tough pill to swallow for people around me… I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

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

If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don’t appreciate the moment until it’s passed.

I don’t want to just preach to the church. I feel like I have a broader message.

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o‘ the flatterer.

Such a chimerical idea as telegraphing vocal sounds would indeed, to most minds, seem scarcely feasible enough to spend time in working over. I believe, however, that it is feasible and that I have got the cue to the solution of the problem.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

Meditation helps me to calm down.

I would be married, but I’d have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

Dialogue means debates and everyone’s point of view.

I guess I’m living in the present more than the past.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

What can I say? I’m a talker.

We don’t get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

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.

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Sometimes I’ve been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.

True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There’s no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected.

Often, I can scarcely hear any one speaking to me; the tones yes, but not the actual words; yet as soon as any one shouts, it is unbearable. What will come of all this, heaven only knows!

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

When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.

I want to let you in on a little secret: I don’t always feel like I’m a success. That’s right. There are plenty of times when I feel like I’ve just totally messed up and failed to connect with the people I’m trying to communicate with.

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they’re interested in.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

Instead of judging people, we need to pray.

The public doesn’t mind people living together without being married, providing they don’t overdo it.

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

Letters are something from you. It’s a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail.

There is so much that people take for granted.

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.

Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is ‚elephant‘.

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

I have a really close relationship with Mike Bloomberg.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

I think, a lot of times when you meet someone, you feel like you need to appear like you’re not interested in them so that they’ll be more interested in you. But what happens when you start showing him that you actually like him? What’s he gonna do then? Play the tape forward; how do you keep a guy like that? I don’t want to sign up for that.

I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.

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

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.

In my house I’m the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.

In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.