My dad was never married. He was kind of a rolling stone. But he was never disrespectful. At the same time, even though he had women in his life when I was a kid, there wasn’t any consistency.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don’t know if I’ll ever be as good a dad as my dad.

If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn’t make your house look any better.

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.

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.

I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.

I was raised in a family where vulnerability was barely tolerated: no training wheels on our bicycles, no goggles in the pool, just get it done. And so I grew up not only with discomfort about my own vulnerability, I didn’t care for it in other people either.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

I grew up in the golden age of Flash Gordon and sci-fi.

To be social is to be forgiving.

Single life is so overrated.

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

When you find a guy who is powerful, a big father figure, you latch onto him immediately.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad.

There are two kinds of people in this world. ‚I‘ people and ‚we‘ people. I’ve always tried to be a ‚we‘ person.

When people say ‚marriage‘ to me… It’s always a means to an end. Everyone’s so in a rush to define the relationship.

I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.

I was enjoying myself writing, because I don’t know what’s going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You don’t know at all what you’re going to find there. That can be thrilling when you read a book, especially when you’re a kid and you’re reading stories.

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

The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars.

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.

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.

I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.

Bhai was my hero and he had immense influence on me.

He knows my limitations and where I’m a good wife and a good mom.

Men want to make women happy.

I’m dying to be a great dad one day, whenever that day comes.

I rely on other people every day of my life.

I used to write random little stupid things when I was five, but then the first song I really wrote was one called ‚Fingers Crossed,‘ which is on SoundCloud.

I haven’t had that one great love, which is good. I don’t want that to be in the past – I want it to be in the future.

What the heck is true love? I remember feeling, back when I was 12 and ‚going‘ with this girl, ‚Is this true love?‘

Marriage is the most wonderful thing ever.

All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader.

I never promise anything. I don’t promise anything to my mum. I don’t promise anything to the supporters.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

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

Even when I was a kid, everything I had was the best.

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

I have more friends in New York than Paris.

When I was five – it’s not even bad – I stole a sweet from the sweet shop.

Within one’s own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.

He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

I don’t like being alone.

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.

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

But there is a difference between cozying up to power and being close to power.

A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.

Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.

I loved cowboy movies when I was a kid. When I was five years old, I was already wearing a cowboy hat and suit. When I grew up, I knew John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Kirk Douglas and so on.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

I know love is the answer.

As a child, I was an active Christian. I used to love the school choir and remember the carol service as always such an emotional thing.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can – that is their secret.

I never went to rock concerts when I was a kid. I didn’t see any rock & roll bands. I had posters on my wall. I had Beatles records.