More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.

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

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

There’s a bond among a kitchen staff, I think. You spend more time with your chef in the kitchen than you do with your own family.

Going home helps the content.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, ‚tough this and tough that.‘ Then there is this business about ‚gooey.‘ The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist.

Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.

I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

I think that both parties should declare the debt limit as a political weapon of mass destruction which can’t be used. I mean, it is silly to have a country that has 237 years building up its reputation and then have people threaten to tear it down because they’re not getting some other matter.

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

I go to sleep thinking about my kids being spoiled and I wake up thinking about it.

I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

Every once in a while I get the highly inappropriate proposal which is like, ‚Wow, Really! You don’t even know me and I don’t know you at all, and you want that to happen? Tonight? Ok, I get off work at 7.30.‘

I mean, if you didn’t get it or if you didn’t feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

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.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

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

Life’s too short to deal with other people’s insecurities.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

People who say they don’t care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don’t care what people think.

If you change and adapt your persona, you are seen as inauthentic; if you stay the angry young man, you fade from attention or seem tiresome.

I continue to care for President Obama and for his family. I think that in many ways they are very courageous people, and I honor that, because I know what it means to live as a black person in a racist America.

Women. They are a complete mystery.

I met my husband before I became a star, and he doesn’t care about any of it.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.

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

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.

We make the Sabbath a delight when we teach the gospel to our children.

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or ‚our‘ country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.

I make friends faster and easier than journalists.

A mission statement is not something you write overnight… But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life.

Eating is so intimate. It’s very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you’re inviting a person into your life.

A reputation as a hard worker is a good reputation to have.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Love is a state of being.

I have Muslim members of my family. I have lived in Muslim countries.

I definitely don’t think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.

Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That’s what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don’t. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He’s a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life.

The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

As a rule, men worry more about what they can’t see than about what they can.

I don’t know if I officially proofread my father’s book, but I read it. I did get some conception of grammar in general from that.

I was raised by strong women, and that DNA is in my daughter and wife.

The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

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

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

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

For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don’t think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I’m with them.