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

Depression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement.

In married life three is company and two none.

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.

You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

Sometimes you can’t prioritise family and you feel guilty.

There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.

I am not a particularly thick-skinned person.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings – always darker, emptier and simpler.

I’d rather tell you how I really feel.

Social Security is based on a principle. It’s based on the principle that you care about other people. You care whether the widow across town, a disabled widow, is going to be able to have food to eat.

Until 1914 I loved to travel; I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years.

An onion can make people cry but there’s never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.

Speak low, if you speak love.

I’ve told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn’t kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.

It always seems odd to me that the fundamental laws of physics, when discovered, can appear in so many different forms that are not apparently identical at first, but, with a little mathematical fiddling, you can show the relationship.

A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.

People react to fear, not love; they don’t teach that in Sunday School, but it’s true.

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.

To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody’s mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.

Some people love so hard that they can’t control those emotions when they’re at their deepest point.

Friends are thieves of time.

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.

Many people tell me that they don ‚t know what to feel when they finish one of my books because the story was dark, or complicated, or strange. But while they were reading it, they were inside my world and they were happy. That’s good.

The things hardest to bear are sweetest to remember.

When the kids are laughing in the audience, I tear up, I’m so happy I did a nice thing.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

I mean, I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn’t mean I don’t get frustrated in my life.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there’s too much fraternizing with the enemy.

Everyone has been in love, at some point or another.

Love is an interesting thing.

Well, it’s looks like I’ve a love-hate thing going on with Monaco.

Ever since I dated a woman, I know what it is to grab a curve on a woman’s body. Skinny’s not fine when the lights are low.

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

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

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you’d would wake up times and hope that the next day you’d be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.

Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

I want to be a man who is truthful and who won’t let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, ‚Here I am. This is me.‘ I feel there’s something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don’t know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

No, I’m not anguished and tormented.

As I get older, I tend to put more into family than I used to.

Cry if you have a compound fracture, by all means. Or if your grandpa died. But otherwise, save it for your pillow.

All of the people in my life whom I consider to be close friends or colleagues are good thinkers.

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

Within one’s own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.

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