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

Disagreement is something normal.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I’ve never been in love before – I don’t really know? I think I have. I guess it’s subjective in that way.

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

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.

There’s nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It’s a thing no married man knows anything about.

Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months.

Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.

We all get weary sometimes, and we tend to think that life is what makes us weary.

Tears are the silent language of grief.

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.

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.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

What really raises one’s indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.

If you wished to be loved, love.

No one was more shocked or angry than I was when we didn’t find the weapons. I had a sickening feeling every time I thought about it. I still do.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

I’ve been careful in love. I’ve been careless in love. And I’ve had adventures I wouldn’t trade for anything.

God doesn’t dwell in the wooden, stony or earthen idols. His abode is in our feelings, our thoughts.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

I always keep my guard up with guys and I guess that can get in the way sometimes. I can make them go through hell.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.

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 it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.

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

It’s very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.

I’m working at trying to be a Christian, and that’s serious business. It’s like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy – it’s serious business.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘

All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

I never thought I’d have children; I never thought I’d be in love, I never thought I’d meet the right person. Having come from a broken home – you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don’t look for them.

The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.

A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds, they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material.

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that’s when I think life is over.

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.

People are underestimating the force of angry kids.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Hear reason, or she’ll make you feel her.

Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I’m angry about bankers. About the government.