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

My biggest error? Something that is to happen yet.

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

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.

To me, if you’re trying to impress a girl, get a date, they’re gonna like that more because you’re a confident guy. That’s what it comes down to.

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

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

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

In the egoic state, your sense of self, your identity, is derived from your thinking mind – in other words, what your mind tells you about yourself: the storyline of you, the memories, the expectations, all the thoughts that go through your head continuously and the emotions that reflect those thoughts. All those things make up your sense of self.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

Don’t ever forget two things I’m going to tell you. One, don’t believe everything that’s written about you. Two, don’t pick up too many checks.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

In the Western Church to which I belong, priests cannot be married as in the Byzantine, Ukrainian, Russian or Greek Catholic Churches. In those churches, the priests can be married, but the bishops have to be celibate. They are very good priests.

You cannot see the changes that you’re dreaming about, because they’re internal.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.

Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.

You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

True friends stab you in the front.

Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.

There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‚That person I see is a savage monster;‘ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.

Everybody has done something that we wish we didn’t say or do and wish we could take it back.

It’s very hard to live with yourself if you don’t stick with your moral code.

I worked with someone who told me they’d never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.

Love can do much, but duty more.

Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I’m really not worth being called an artist at all.

I am always wary of decisions made hastily. I am always wary of the first decision, that is, the first thing that comes to my mind if I have to make a decision. This is usually the wrong thing. I have to wait and assess, looking deep into myself, taking the necessary time.

I try to be the same person I was yesterday.

I talk about myself in the third person all the time. I don’t live my life in the way someone like you does. I live my life completely serving only my work and my fans.

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

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place.

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

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

The truth is, I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let men sometimes fool themselves.

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?

I purposely don’t talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But I do say that I want you to be blessed. To me, prosperity is having health, having great children, having peace, good relationships. It’s not about the money.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

Why do Jewish men die before their wives? They want to.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

Barack Obama did tell me that I was one of Michelle Obama’s favorite actors.

Great loves too must be endured.

The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.

It seems like we wake up and it’s a race until you get to bed. It gets to you after a while and you think, ‚What the hell am I doing?‘

A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.

I don’t have a type. I don’t have a specific kind of human being. It’s just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I’ve ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

Marriage is the most wonderful thing ever.

If people wonder, yes, Hillary Clinton is my friend. She has been a friend to me and Barack and Malia and Sasha, and Bill and Chelsea have been embracing and supportive from the very day my husband took the oath of office.

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

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.