I was never a boy magnet at school. There was always the girl all the guys liked and wanted to date, but it was never me.

I got teased my entire school life. What they were picking on I don’t even understand.

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

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.

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

The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.

When you’re a little kid, you don’t see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.

I’m not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.

I am a bit of a solitude person – a solitary personality. I like being on my own. I don’t have any major friendships or relationships with people.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.

You tend to feel very hurt when people attack you and feel indifferent when you get praise. You think, ‚Of course they like it. They should like it.‘

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love – first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

Here’s what I’ve learned about deal-breakers. If you have enough natural chemistry with someone, you overlook every single thing that you said would break the deal.

Arthur Miller wouldn’t have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

Friend, there’s no greater investment in life than in being a people builder. Relationships are more important than our accomplishments.

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing – hopefully.

Marriage is scary to me, man.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

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

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.

True friends stab you in the front.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.

I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women… no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it – and sometimes three.

When people say ‚marriage‘ to me… It’s always a means to an end. Everyone’s so in a rush to define the relationship.

I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other.

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

It used to be the case, like you’d switch jobs, and then maybe you wouldn’t keep in touch with all the people that you knew from that old job, just because it was too hard. But one of the things that Facebook does is it makes it really easy to just stay in touch with all these people.

College isn’t in everyone’s hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn’t mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.

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

Wives are people who feel they don’t dance enough.

Men’s vows are women’s traitors!

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

I make friends faster and easier than journalists.

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

Though lovers be lost, love shall not.

Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.

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.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

I am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year. I don’t doubt that I shall have perfect crowds of admirers at that age. Then how I shall delight to make them await my bidding, and with what delight shall I witness their suspense while I make my final decision.

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

Some people are making music just for numbers and views.

Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

I can imagine it’s hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn’t know.

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

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.