If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

Fear is exciting for me.

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.

Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

I’ve lived a very colorful life, and I’ve said some things, But not once have I taken them back, and I’ve never apologized for them – and I won’t.

Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That’s definitely my first response. I think change is more likely to happen if both partners have common language and a shared lens to see problems.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.

If people wonder, yes, Hillary Clinton is my friend. She has been a friend to me and Barack and Malia and Sasha, and Bill and Chelsea have been embracing and supportive from the very day my husband took the oath of office.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

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

We’re all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

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

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

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

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

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.

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.

I have met 18 million youth, and each wants to be unique.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

There’s something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.

If you’re serious, you really understand that it’s important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you’re the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you’re funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

I was a bit challenged when I was younger to stay on the right path.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

Some people can just let things go, but I can’t, especially if there’s something that worries me or makes me sad.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and everyone who humbles himself will be exalted.

I don’t really know that much about love, it turns out.

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.

What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.

There’s something about being in front of a live audience that’s fun. It’s a really interesting, very electric, very alive, and intense experience, and you can’t get it anywhere else. And I’ve been doing it since I was 23, so it’s part of my being – it’s part of my fabric as a person.

Catering to bad feelings feeds and empowers them.

I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids‘ dreams, but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We’ve all stumbled, and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again.

I intend to inspire people with my story: motivate young people that grew up like myself, or even not like myself. Just, you know, go through the human experience.

I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it’s absolutely true.

I met my husband before I became a star, and he doesn’t care about any of it.

I’ve been searching for ways to heal myself, and I’ve found that kindness is the best way.

I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me.

I know that I’m not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don’t know how not to.

If we don’t plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don’t have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don’t have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.

Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.

I don’t want to make money; I want to make a difference.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.

There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving – by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

There weren’t a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn’t have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion to play music with your friends.

You can’t have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

You can’t go backward in life.

What you are comes to you.

Friends are thieves of time.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.

The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.

When you are young you tend to do so many things that are not needed. When you get experience, you know what exactly what works for you and you tend to do things that you want.