I make decisions all day, so it’s nice for a woman like me to go to dinner and have the man take the menu and say, ‚Let me order.‘ Other women would be offended by that, but I’m like, ‚Good. Because I can’t make one more decision today.‘ I want someone to rub my feet without being asked.

The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

Our focus needs to be less on what our legacy’s going to be or how we can control each other and more how we can give to each other.

Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

If you’re going to wake up early all the time, and you’re working hard, and you’re working out, sometimes you’re going to get tired. It’s OK. It’s acceptable – somewhat. We’re all human, unfortunately.

My wife thinks she’s better than me at puzzles. I haven’t given in on that one yet.

For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.

You can’t have a value structure without a hierarchy. They’re the same thing because a value structure means one thing takes precedence over another.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.

My wife and I don’t compete. We know each other’s preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That’s what friends do.

I love making music. That’s what I love to do. So I don’t feel like there’s any need to take a break unless I want to.

Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion – towards ourselves and towards all living beings.

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up.

Love is an interesting thing.

I don’t have to ‚freedom-kiss‘ my wife when what I really want to do is French-kiss her.

Beware the hobby that eats.

Give yourself more opportunities for privacy, when you are not bombarded with duties and obligations. Privacy is not a rejection of those you love; it is your deserved respite for recharging your batteries.

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

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes… and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

Running started as a way of relaxing. It’s the only time I have to myself. No phones or e-mails or faxes.

I love to put on lotion. Sometimes I’ll watch TV and go into a lotion trance for an hour. I try to find brands that don’t taste bad in case anyone wants to taste me.

I’ve tried everything. I’ve done therapy, I’ve done colonics. I went to a psychic who had me running around town buying pieces of ribbon to fill the colors in my aura. Did the Prozac thing.

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

I just think it’s so important not to take yourself too seriously.

I don’t have time to be lonely. And I get fearful of relationships because I feel guilty about wanting someone to be completely faithful and loyal, when I can’t even give them 10 percent of the attention that they need. It’s just the reality of my time, my life, my schedule.

Before I lost my voice, it was slurred, so only those close to me could understand, but with the computer voice, I found I could give popular lectures. I enjoy communicating science. It is important that the public understands basic science, if they are not to leave vital decisions to others.

To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.

As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.

The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we’re scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don’t have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‚to do‘ list.

You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I’m taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.

I’ve always put everybody else’s child first before my own health, before my own outfit, before my own time frame.

We all die, we all get sick, we all feel hunger and lust and pain, and therefore human life is consistent from one generation to the other. We all – most of us, anyway – want connections with other people and spend our lives looking for them.

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.

Moderation is the key so I work certain amount of time and then I take a certain amount of time off.

Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

It used to be the case, like you’d switch jobs, and then maybe you wouldn’t keep in touch with all the people that you knew from that old job, just because it was too hard. But one of the things that Facebook does is it makes it really easy to just stay in touch with all these people.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

Single life is so overrated.

My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don’t think about it, I just have it.

If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.

Marriage is the most wonderful thing ever.

Really showing love requires more than just words.