I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it’s my mind.

I’ve learned that we all change constantly. It’s rare to find that person who is growing with you in the same way at the same time, who encourages you to grow.

Men who think that a woman’s past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.

It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

Keeping score is for games, not friendships.

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related.

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.

He knows my limitations and where I’m a good wife and a good mom.

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

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don’t know if I’ll ever be as good a dad as my dad.

To be social is to be forgiving.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I’m not leading them to some false God or something like that.

You gotta understand: I believe a woman should praise the man, the king. If you holding it down for your woman, I feel like the woman should praise. And the man should praise the queen.

My mom and I have always been there for each other. We had some tough times, but she was always there for me.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader.

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.

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it’s time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.

Hear reason, or she’ll make you feel her.

My father wasn’t a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher – one of those Victorians, hard as iron – but my dad was tough enough.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

Marriage is the most wonderful thing ever.

You don’t want to live your life and then meet someone. You want to share your life with someone. That’s what I’m missing right now.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.

We do not judge the people we love.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

I’m grateful to intelligent people. That doesn’t mean educated. That doesn’t mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call ‚mother wit‘ means intelligence that you had in your mother’s womb. That’s what you rely on. You know what’s right to do.

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

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

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

True friends stab you in the front.

Wit is educated insolence.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

Women don’t try to use me.

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

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.

I think it’s a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked.

When you have good friends you’ve been around, every time they talk, you don’t give them your full attention. You don’t look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you’re listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.

The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison.

When I was married, I definitely went through a lying period.

God gave you a brain. Do the best you can with it. And you don’t have to be Einstein, but Einstein was mentally tough. He believed what he believed. And he worked out things. And he argued with people who disagreed with him. But I’m sure he didn’t call everybody jerks.