It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

Ever since I dated a woman, I know what it is to grab a curve on a woman’s body. Skinny’s not fine when the lights are low.

Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.

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

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‚I’ll buy a million dollars‘ worth of love.‘ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

It is better to be deceived by one’s friends than to deceive them.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

It’s human nature to blame someone else for your shortcomings or upsets.

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That’s human nature.

All of these young people have some kind of potential in them. And if we don’t invest in them as a nation, regardless of where they come from or what color they are, if we don’t invest in them, we lose.

Men exist for the sake of one another.

I feel like I’m the kind of guy that would have kids before getting married. The first thing would be kids.

It’s not possible to stop love.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone’s wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.

I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.

Our diversity is our strength. What a dull and pointless life it would be if everyone was the same.

Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

I am a bit of a solitude person – a solitary personality. I like being on my own. I don’t have any major friendships or relationships with people.

To terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?

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

The entering class I joined in 1956 included just nine women, up from five in the then second-year class, and only one African American. All professors, in those now-ancient days, were of the same race and sex.

There is no such thing as part freedom.

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

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

I want a president who will teach our children that everyone in this country matters, a president who truly believes in the vision that our Founders put forth all those years ago that we are all created equal, each a beloved part of the great American story.

My mother never made me do anything for my brothers, like serve them. I think that’s an important lesson, especially for the Latino culture, because the women are expected to be the ones that serve and cook and whatever. Not in our family. Everybody was equal.

The public doesn’t mind people living together without being married, providing they don’t overdo it.

If you wished to be loved, love.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

To get a hold on boys you must be their friend.

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

I go for all sharing the privileges of the government, who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently, I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage, who pay taxes or bear arms (by no means excluding females).

Fear is the mother of morality.

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

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

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.

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.

I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.

You gotta understand: I believe a woman should praise the man, the king. If you holding it down for your woman, I feel like the woman should praise. And the man should praise the queen.

Men’s vows are women’s traitors!

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.