I’m sick of the tabloids‘ saying I obsess over guys. Why would you obsess over guys? They don’t like it.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

I was very blessed to have family and friends, but particularly family, who told me I was not only all right, I was just right, so I believe that my brain is a good one, and it’s lasting me very well.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

To be clear: we have fights and problems like any other couple.

My philosophy is it’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

I have a very good family. I’m very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It’s one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.

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

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

I put my flaws on front street. So the world accepted my flaws, so I don’t have any flaws.

I think that it’s okay to be mad at someone who hurt you. This isn’t about, like, the pageantry of trying to seem like nothing affects you.

Though lovers be lost, love shall not.

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.

Sure it’s a big job; but I don’t know anyone who can do it better than I can.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

If a man’s character is to be abused there’s nobody like a relative to do the business.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

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

We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.

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

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

Marriage is the most wonderful thing ever.

I’m not really concerned with portraying this tough warrior – I mean, that’s part of my job and I take that very seriously. But I don’t have anything to hide, and I’m not concerned with what people think.

I’ll tell you one thing, since I’m married, single people look absolutely ridiculous to me.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

When someone bestows something on you, no matter how true it is, when someone says, ‚Sexiest Man Alive,‘ I’m honestly going, ‚Thank you. Right on.‘ For me, it’s never canceled out anything, it’s never made me go, ‚Does this make me less talented of an actor?‘

My wife has about everything I can think of.

I married my best friend that happens to be a girl.

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

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.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or ‚our‘ country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.

We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.

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

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

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.

He knows my limitations and where I’m a good wife and a good mom.

All you need is love.

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Arthur Miller wouldn’t have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.

To be loved is very demoralizing.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.

I think I have to trust that you end up with the person you’re supposed to end up with, and that everything in between is there to teach you stuff.

I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don’t know if it’s possible forever and ever.

Friends are thieves of time.

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.

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.

My friends are my estate.

A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend’s griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother’s happiness.

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.