I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.

People were saying that David Geffen and I had gotten married and it just blew me away. Not that they thought I was gay, but that they thought I could land a guy that hot.

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

Speak low, if you speak love.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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

Friends accept you the way you are.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

I think I have had so much blessing – I’ve had my brother, who was brilliant – I think my family came closest to making a genius when they made my brother – Bailey was just all of that. He loved me.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people’s happiness.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

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.

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what’s mine.

Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. They don’t want to be a colony in a nation.

My fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids‘ reaction to that divorce.

My husband says I look like a Q-tip.

I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don’t know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

Eating is so intimate. It’s very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you’re inviting a person into your life.

I make friends faster and easier than journalists.

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

I think, when you are growing up, you have to pull apart from what your mother wants or needs. You’ve got to go your own way, and that’s what I did.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it’s a better way of telling the stories.

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness.

It doesn’t matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I’m a woman or a man.

I own my own company, so I’ve never had businessmen telling me what to do or getting worried if something doesn’t sell. I’ve always had my own access to the public, because I started off making my clothes for a little shop and so I’ve always had people buying them.

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

I’ve done a lot of things I’m not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that.

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.

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

Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.

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

Ranking among the greatest Christmas movie classics, ‚It’s a Wonderful Life‘ tells a beautiful story about the priceless value of relationships.

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

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

Few are drawn to the person whom others avoid and neglect; people gather around those who have already attracted interest.

It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

Most of the people that I deal with are human. So I’ve had a lot of experience with that.

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.

I was raised to be independent.

Only when Christ comes again will the little white children of Alabama walk hand in hand with little black children.

People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like – that’s a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.

Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

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

It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

You bring children into the world. You love them with heart and soul.