If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.

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

I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe what a man says himself rather than what people say he says.

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.

Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can – that is their secret.

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 don’t hate women – they just sometimes make me mad.

If I had chosen the populist course, it would have been a breach of the trust placed in me by the people.

Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God’s work everywhere will be your reward.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

The second time around, I’ll understand that, as a husband, my wife doesn’t care about my opinions. I just need to tell her the things that will continue to help me stack the brownie points.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship – never.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

A friend is nothing but a known enemy.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

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.

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

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

That’s the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me.

The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.

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 this age, I don’t care how tactically or operationally brilliant you are: if you cannot create harmony – even vicious harmony – on the battlefield based on trust across service lines, across coalition and national lines, and across civilian/military lines, you need to go home, because your leadership is obsolete.

My wife doesn’t even want to spend 2 hours with me.

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

I make friends faster and easier than journalists.

I have a heart of gold, but I’m really a marshmallow in my heart.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

He that does good to another does good also to himself.

When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own.

The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.

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

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

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

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

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

I’m just a friendly person; that runs in my family.

Lovers often invest their first meetings with retrospective significance, as if to try to conjure the elements of the numinous out of the stubborn witness of the everyday.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

Despite the slowness, the infidelity, the errors and sins it committed and might still commit against its members, the Church, trust me, has no other meaning and goal but to live and witness Jesus.

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

It’s hard for anybody who’s been with me not to feel starved for affection when I’m making love to my ideas. Maybe it’s not meant for me to settle down and be married.

I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women… no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

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.

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

Patience is key for getting over a breakup. That, and trailing off your interaction after the breakup.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

My friends are my estate.