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.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

She is a peacock in everything but beauty.

In one day, I have times where I’m feeling great, I feel like I love my life, and then 2:30 rolls around and I’m the angriest man alive. My wife sees it.

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

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

Love is a state of being.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Brad was a huge surprise to me. I think we were both the last two people who were looking for a relationship. I certainly wasn’t. I was quite content to be a single mom with Mad.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

If you wear clothes that don’t suit you, you’re a fashion victim. You have to wear clothes that make you look better.

I’m tough when I have to be, tender when I should be. When you find a really tough guy, he’s not a predator. He doesn’t have to prove himself. Guys who have to pretend to be tough, they ain’t. I’m tough.

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

I’ve never been a boyfriend kind of girl.

Listening has importance only when one is not projecting one’s own desires through which one listens.

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.

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

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

I mean, families are weird.

I do not, in fact, use many puns. Certainly there are far fewer than people believe. But I suspect the ones I do occasionally use tend to hang around in people’s memories for a while.

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that’s when I think life is over.

Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.

One of the things I’ve told men over and over and over and over is if you’re being rejected by all the women that you approach, it’s not the women!

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

I am not designed to come second or third. I am designed to win.

For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don’t think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I’m with them.

I used to take my short stories to girls‘ homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?

If you’re really satisfied with your position on something, you just say, ‚Hey;‘ you just very calmly present something.

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.

That’s all I could ever hope for, to have a positive effect on women. ‚Cos women are powerful, powerful beings. But they’re also the most doubtful beings. They’ll never know – we’ll never know – how powerful we are.

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.

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.

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

I will not be concerned at other men’s not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

Power is like being a lady… if you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.

Next time I see you, remind me not to talk to you.

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‚Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?‘ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.

You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.

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

Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.

I definitely don’t plead guilty to being a heartthrob.

I don’t say very much I don’t really think through. I know that sounds inconsistent with Joe Biden.

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

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

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

I like a man who grins when he fights.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

I’m not really concerned with portraying this tough warrior – I mean, that’s part of my job and I take that very seriously. But I don’t have anything to hide, and I’m not concerned with what people think.

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

Each day we understand better what the Indians say, and they us, so that very often we are intelligible to each other.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.