I’ve missed out on a lot of things, going out with friends.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‚understand‘ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.

Only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.

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

If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

I think any man who lets a woman pick what he should wear… I mean, you gotta draw the line somewhere as a man. I see these guys, ‚My wife told me to wear this!‘ And I just shake my head.

I have more friends in New York than Paris.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

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

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

In football, I don’t have a lot of friends. The people who I really trust, there are not many… Most of the time, I’m alone.

Great loves too must be endured.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

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.

Creative people don’t behave very well generally. If you’re looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you’re gonna be depressed real fast. I don’t have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She’s my first priority.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

I don’t have a type. I don’t have a specific kind of human being. It’s just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I’ve ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.

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

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

The devil ain’t got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil’s a good friend, too… because when you don’t know him, that’s the time he can mosh you down.

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

You know what, I’m very attracted to someone who makes me laugh and is that charming. Really, I could be charmed by anyone. I’m just a sucker for somebody that is charming.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.

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

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.

Intimates are predestined.

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!

Absolutely not. I have no problem with commitment. In fact, I love having someone in my life.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered.

I was adored once too.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

If you’re talking to a man who wouldn’t fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you’re talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.

It’s fun to be hopelessly in love. It’s dangerous, but it’s fun.

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

The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I’m willing to show you. In you, it’s courage and daring. In me, it’s weakness.

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 rely on other people every day of my life.

My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.

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 die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.