In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

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

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

I take my kids to school. And if I go to work, I go to work, and they visit me on set. I come home. I have dinner with my family. I have breakfast with my family. I have a very solid, very warm home.

Do not rebuke mockers, or they will hate you; rebuke the wise, and they will love you.

Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.

Don’t get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.

The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.

Marriage is the most wonderful thing ever.

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.

As a father and now a grandfather to three wonderful grandchildren, I know how magical the first year of a child’s life is but also how much hard work it takes. Being able to spend as much time as possible with your loved ones is absolutely vital, especially early on.

If I’d married someone in show business, there’d be too much competition.

Living big and joyful and content is almost always the result of our finding satisfaction in life’s ordinary day-to-day pleasures. And God must be fond of them, too, for He made so many of them for us to enjoy.

I’ve done the bad-boy thing. It was fun for a good three months. But the thing about bad boys is, you have to keep in mind, you’re never gonna marry a bad boy.

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, ‚Did you sleep good?‘ I said ‚No, I made a few mistakes.‘

Not necessity, not desire – no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything – health, food, a place to live, entertainment – they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Here’s what I’ve learned about deal-breakers. If you have enough natural chemistry with someone, you overlook every single thing that you said would break the deal.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

I wouldn’t say that anyone in fashion is on my side. I don’t think there’s anyone on my side.

Know your worth! People always act like they’re doing more for you than you’re doing for them.

Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.

Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there’s nothing really to talk about.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

Funny is the world I live in. You’re funny, I’m interested. You’re not funny, I’m not interested.

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

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

You can write a song about being in love with someone, but you don’t have to be in love with anyone.

Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can’t ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment’s notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow – that’s vulnerability.

Marriage is scary to me, man.

The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.

You don’t sign up for a divorce when you get married. It’s very painful. But it’s taught me a great deal about myself.

Ranking among the greatest Christmas movie classics, ‚It’s a Wonderful Life‘ tells a beautiful story about the priceless value of relationships.

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

I’ve never had a dislike for men. I’ve been badly treated by some. But I’ve been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.

My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we’re blood.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

Man’s enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.

My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that’s not so bad; but New York City?

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.

You can’t have a relationship with a device whose limits are unknown to you, because without limits, it keeps becoming something else.

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

The more I grow in popularity, the lonelier it gets. Because you don’t really know me. You just know this part of me. You fell in love with that. But it’s way more intricate than what meets the surface.

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love – first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.