I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.

My mother never made me do anything for my brothers, like serve them. I think that’s an important lesson, especially for the Latino culture, because the women are expected to be the ones that serve and cook and whatever. Not in our family. Everybody was equal.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

I think that it’s okay to be mad at someone who hurt you. This isn’t about, like, the pageantry of trying to seem like nothing affects you.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

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

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.

It’s so much easier to like people, and to let people in, to trust them until they prove that you should do otherwise. The alternative is being an iceberg.

I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

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.

When you’re around the kids, you feel like you act the most grown up just because you’re supposed to lead. I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.

Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

I think the perfection of love is that it’s not perfect.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

My dad was never married. He was kind of a rolling stone. But he was never disrespectful. At the same time, even though he had women in his life when I was a kid, there wasn’t any consistency.

To get a hold on boys you must be their friend.

Logically, harmony must come from the heart… Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

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.

I’ve felt like an outsider all my life. It comes from my mother, who always felt like an outsider in my father’s family. She was a powerful woman, and she motivated my father.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

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.

I love our daughters more than anything in the world – more than life itself. And while that may not be the first thing that some folks want to hear from an Ivy-league-educated lawyer, it is truly who I am. So for me, being Mom-in-Chief is, and always will be, job number one.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

It’s important to love in hip hop.

In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that’s called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.

My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that’s not so bad; but New York City?

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

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

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Really showing love requires more than just words.

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

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.

Everything is clearer when you’re in love.

Young love is wild and outrageous, laughing at moderation and blinding us to common sense.

Now that I’m a parent, I understand why my father was in a bad mood a lot.

A lot of preachers‘ kids are some of the most rebellious kids in the world. I never was like that.

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

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we’re even alive at all.

We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.

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

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

Men want to make women happy.

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

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

There are always people always asking you for something. But I feel like I have a foundation. I have a supporting cast where it doesn’t bother me too much.

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.