If women were particular about men’s characters, they would never get married at all.

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

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

A chaplain’s assistant is customarily a figure of fun in the American Army.

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

It’s so much easier to like people, and to let people in, to trust them until they prove that you should do otherwise. The alternative is being an iceberg.

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

I’m not a real movie star. I’ve still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

I always wanted to be loved.

No one loves the man whom he fears.

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

I think I have had so much blessing – I’ve had my brother, who was brilliant – I think my family came closest to making a genius when they made my brother – Bailey was just all of that. He loved me.

I think that feminists have definitely underestimated the role that women have had historically. I think I would be insecure if I were to be a man; there’s so much pressure on you.

Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.

I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.

To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

My partner Donald Trump says that married couples should always have a prenuptial agreement. True, a prenuptial is important if one partner is much richer than the other before marriage, but Kim and I don’t have one.

Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.

Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.

Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I’d worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: ‚Don’t hide these things from me. I’d rather you ask me these things straight out, and I’ll answer all your questions.‘

There is no such thing as a lovers‘ oath.

The relationship to one’s fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one’s striving.

The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.

The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you’re making a mistake but let you go on with it, that’s when it ruins your mind state as an artist.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.

Marriage is the most wonderful thing ever.

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

I had real plans for my next decade and felt I’d worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read – if not indeed write – the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger?

Most people would rather give than get affection.

I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.

We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother – but… when she became our child, the affection came.

A man’s manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

No one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert by yourself, but you are related. You cannot escape from that absolute fact. You cannot exist in isolation.

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Any man who doesn’t love his mama can’t be no friend of mine.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we’re both fortunate in the fact that we think we married above ourselves.

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

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

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.

I don’t keep people around me that aren’t family. You don’t get to stay. Unless you’re eating at the table with us, you’re not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

If you’re talking to a man who wouldn’t fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you’re talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.

What good am I? I can’t have kids. I can’t cook. I’ve been divorced three times. Who would want me?

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.