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 me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself.

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

I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

When I was seven or eight years old, I began to read the science-fiction magazines that were brought by guests into my grandparents‘ boarding house in Waukegan, Illinois. Those were the years when Hugo Gernsback was publishing ‚Amazing Stories,‘ with vivid, appallingly imaginative cover paintings that fed my hungry imagination.

I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

There are no rules when it comes to love.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

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

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

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

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.

There wasn’t much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult, but I was always very interested in what motivates people, and in telling stories and building things.

Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night’s date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn’t think of looking at another woman.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

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.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in 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.

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.

My mother is a strong, wonderful woman. I could never be anything she didn’t want me to be.

I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.

The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

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.

Love is trembling happiness.

Friends are thieves of time.

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, ‚Did you sleep good?‘ I said ‚No, I made a few mistakes.‘

I was baptized by my father when I was 4 years old.

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

The tree I had in the garden as a child, my beech tree, I used to climb up there and spend hours. I took my homework up there, my books, I went up there if I was sad, and it just felt very good to be up there among the green leaves and the birds and the sky.

It’s much worse to read criticism about your son than yourself.

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.

If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it’s cool that happens.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.

Sucking up to the biggies won’t get us anywhere.

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

Friends accept you the way you are.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?

The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

I got a lot of support from my parents. That’s the one thing I always appreciated. They didn’t tell me I was being stupid; they told me I was being funny.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

You can’t be in love with a Google search.

All you need is love.

Marriage is scary to me, man.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘

Be nice to your children. After all, they are going to choose your nursing home.

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.

True friends stab you in the front.