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.

When I get married, it’ll be no secret.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

When your mother asks, ‚Do you want a piece of advice?‘ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.

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.

Man becomes his most creative during war.

Really, who you are is defined by the people who you know – not even the people that you know, but the people you spend time with and the people that you love and the people that you work with. I guess we show your friends in your profile, but that’s kind of different from the information you put in your profile.

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

I’ve never been a boyfriend kind of girl.

Crankiness is at the essence of all comedy. My wife and I were discussing the different types of cranky. There’s entertaining cranky, annoying cranky, angry cranky.

Friend, there’s no greater investment in life than in being a people builder. Relationships are more important than our accomplishments.

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

My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

Let us build bridges, my friends, build bridges to human dignity across that gulf that separates black America from white America.

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

I can’t go out with a Republican.

Man’s true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

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

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

Brad was a huge surprise to me. I think we were both the last two people who were looking for a relationship. I certainly wasn’t. I was quite content to be a single mom with Mad.

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.

You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

No matter how beautiful a woman might be, you’re always threatened by certain… You’re always threatened by other women, period.

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

I boldly assert, in fact I think I know, that a lot of friendships and connections absolutely depend upon a sort of shared language, or slang. Not necessarily designed to exclude others, this can establish a certain comity and, even after a long absence, re-establish it in a second.

I make decisions all day, so it’s nice for a woman like me to go to dinner and have the man take the menu and say, ‚Let me order.‘ Other women would be offended by that, but I’m like, ‚Good. Because I can’t make one more decision today.‘ I want someone to rub my feet without being asked.

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.

To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

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

Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

We can’t have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don’t mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.

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.

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

Repeal the Missouri Compromise – repeal all compromises – repeal the Declaration of Independence – repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man’s heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don’t know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.

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

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

I have a family, loving aunts, and a good home. No, on the surface I seem to have everything except my one true friend. All I think about when I’m with friends is having a good time. I can’t bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. We don’t seem to be able to get any closer, and that’s the problem.

When all is said and done, what constitutes the impregnable superiority of Christianity over all other types of Faith is that it is ever more consciously identified with a Christogenesis: in other words, with an awareness of the rise of a certain universal Presence which is at once immortalizing and unifying.

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.

We need somebody who’s got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it’s like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old – and that’s the criterion by which I’ll be selecting my judges.

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.