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.

When I get married, it’ll be no secret.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Everyone has been in love, at some point or another.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

The human heart is the same the world over.

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

You can’t trust very many people.

I would be married, but I’d have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

I’m a girls‘ girl. I have guy friends, but the problem with having guy friends is, like, I always get linked to them, and they’ll end up in a slideshow of people I’ve apparently dated on the Internet.

The word ‚happy‘ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

I think any man who lets a woman pick what he should wear… I mean, you gotta draw the line somewhere as a man. I see these guys, ‚My wife told me to wear this!‘ And I just shake my head.

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

I’ve had moments when I’ve thought about somebody, picked up the phone to call them and they are on the line already, and I think that maybe there’s some vibration, some connection.

Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don’t mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That’s not power. That’s just corruption.

Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.

There’s nothing better than having a baby. I’ve always loved children. I used to work summers at the YMCA and be in charge of, like, 30 preschool kids. I knew that when I had a child, I’d be overwhelmed, and it’s true… I can’t tell you how much my attitude has changed since we’ve got Frances. Holding my baby is the best drug in the world.

I feel like when I try to fit in, it comes across as not genuine, and that is not good. I’d rather just do me and have people say, ‚Oh. That’s interesting,‘ than try to fit in.

Love is not consolation. It is light.

As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me.

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

I have no human feelings.

There was one incident at a movie theater where my girl got mad at these guys who were talking behind us. I never looked back there, but she was like, ‚Will you all just shut up!‘ And I just got up and moved three rows in front. She was like, ‚What are you doing?!‘ I was like, ‚You better get up here! I don’t play the fighting games.‘

It’s true that I’ve never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.

A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend’s griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother’s happiness.

One thing about me is I try to be honest.

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

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

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

The more I grow in popularity, the lonelier it gets. Because you don’t really know me. You just know this part of me. You fell in love with that. But it’s way more intricate than what meets the surface.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don’t implement promises, but keep them.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don’t know if it’s possible forever and ever.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there’s the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it. You didn’t do it the way somebody told you to do it.

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

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

Like associates with like.

Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That’s not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that’s what life needs to be – and that if it’s not that, it’s all screwed up. It’s not.

Though lovers be lost, love shall not.

I’m not going to say I’m cool, because I don’t really feel that. I just don’t care at all, and I guess that’s what people think is cool.