It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

President Assad, I worked with. I know him reasonably well, met with him a few times, and he’s a liar.

Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

My husband is everything to me and without him it’s just not the same.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

Men exist for the sake of one another.

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

When you really don’t like a guy, they’re all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they’re no longer interested.

There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

I’m a human being and I fall in love and sometimes I don’t have control of every situation.

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.

I’ve known and continue to know every one of these major world leaders by their first names, and I have access to them.

I can’t go out with a Republican.

A friend is nothing but a known enemy.

Basically my wife was immature. I’d be at home in the bath and she’d come in and sink my boats.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

I have more friends in New York than Paris.

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

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

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

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for 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’m not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I’m the girl who rarely has a boyfriend.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

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

I am the center of attention in my job every single day; the thought of a wedding to me is exhausting. Why would I put myself through that?

I know that I’m not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don’t know how not to.

Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.

Genius is a potential that lives within you and every other human being. You have many moments of genius in your lifetime. These are the times when you have a uniquely brilliant idea and implement it even if only you are aware of how fantastic it is.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

I don’t like people going behind my back.

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

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.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.

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

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

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

Friends accept you the way you are.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery.

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

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

Wives are people who feel they don’t dance enough.

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.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

To be social is to be forgiving.

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

When I say I’m going to take care of a woman, I don’t just mean physically or sexually or romantically. I’m going to take care of her emotionally and spiritually. I’m going to take care of her in all ways. I take a lot of pride in that today.

Women may fall when there’s no strength in men.

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

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

I thank God I’m myself and for the life I’m given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it’s almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.