If I think too hard about a relationship, I’ll talk myself out of it.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who’ll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you’re in the wrong house, that’s what it means.

When I was into my 30s, I became increasingly depressed by rejection letters. I had had the feeling that by the time I was 30, I would be established. But I was not at all. By the time of ‚Lives of Girls and Women,‘ I was into my 40s and I had become more thin-skinned.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

I thank God I’m myself and for the life I’m given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.

I give opinions, not advice.

I’m only going to stand before God and give an account for my life, not for somebody else’s life. If I have a bad attitude, then I need to say there’s no point in me blaming you for what’s wrong in my life.

How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

I’m pretty sure I don’t have any songs that are about how much I love someone. They’re all either about, like, ‚I hate you,‘ or ‚You make me hate me.‘

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.

I searched for years I found no love. I’m sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.

If I wasn’t Bob Dylan, I’d probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.

What’s really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

I’ve always felt like there was a lot of hype around me even when there wasn’t. I felt like everyone was talking about me even when no one was talking about me.

If you like a person you say ‚let’s go into business together.‘ Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.

I’ve seen my friends take someone back after they’ve cheated because they fit perfectly.

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.

I can’t relate to lazy people. We don’t speak the same language. I don’t understand you. I don’t want to understand you.

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

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

When I was a kid, I had a tendency to criticize. But when I did, my mum would whisk me off to the bathroom to stand in front of a mirror. Ten minutes, never less. To think about how criticism is a poor reflection on the one who criticizes.

What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it’s because that’s what’s inside.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

It has not yet become obvious to me that there’s no real problem. I cannot define the real problem; therefore, I suspect there’s no real problem, but I’m not sure there’s no real problem.

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it’s with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.

When the people you love are gone, you’re alone.

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don’t find out til too late that he’s been playing with two queens all along.

The reason I talk to myself is that I’m the only one whose answers I accept.

We need an adult in the White House. When making life-or-death, war-or-peace decisions, a president can’t just pop off or lash out irrationally.

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives… inside ourselves.

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.

I’ve found that men I’ve dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I’ve found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren’t competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been… challenging.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

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

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.

I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library.

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.

I’ve just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel are right for me and my fans.

It’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well.

Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can’t ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment’s notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow – that’s vulnerability.

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

Since the team understands that the leader is de facto in charge, in that respect, a leader has nothing to prove. But in another respect, a leader has everything to prove: Every member of the team must develop the trust and confidence that their leader will exercise good judgment, remain calm, and make the right decisions when it matters most.

Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

She’s been married so many times she has rice marks on her face.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.