My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we’re blood.

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.

There are no rules when it comes to love.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

It’s true; once you are a father, there’s no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.

I’m not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.

We should not look down on our first ancestors.

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

The notion that we have even one single veteran living on the streets should be just considered a travesty to all of us.

I never saw any of my dad’s stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.

Whether I’m running on the beach without my shirt or whether I’m going out with my kids or going to church or going out to dinner – I don’t choose to insulate myself in engaging in real life. Hence, the public kind of almost knows me as much through my real life that they see through the rag mags.

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?

I think we all change each other’s paths. I don’t know which law idea that is in physics, but I don’t think any of us can live without affecting one another.

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

I support immediate financial assistance to the newly elected Palestinian president. Now, I don’t know what those numbers will be, and I don’t know how it’s going to be framed.

Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.

Making your dad happy is – especially for an Italian Catholic girl, I’ll tell you – it feels really good.

Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life.

We are not going to be satisfied by politicians saying ‚we support you‘ and then walking away. We won’t be satisfied until they meet our demands and act. That’s why simply taking a selfie or posting support on Twitter isn’t enough. That’s why we have to keep striking.

There’s no political point worth my son’s life.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

I have more friends in New York than Paris.

The name Zahra was to have been lman’s own name at birth, but a senior member of the family changed it to lman at the last minute.

Marriage is the most wonderful thing ever.

I am completely fascinated by the differences and comparisons between real life and fairy tales because we’re raised as little girls to think that we’re a princess and that Prince Charming is going to sweep us off our feet.

When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one – it’s the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky – in the big cities, too, for that matter.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

I think everyone should be with who they love.

Mostly, my flying has been solo, but the preparation for it wasn’t. Without my husband’s help and encouragement, I could not have attempted what I have. Ours has been a contented and reasonable partnership, he with his solo jobs and I with mine. But always with work and play together, conducted under a satisfactory system of dual control.

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

I love being a dad. I just love it.

God puts people in our lives on purpose so we can help them succeed and help them become all He created them to be. Most people will not reach their full potential without somebody else believing in them.

Actors are one family over the entire world.

My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

Great loves too must be endured.

There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving – by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

I never go into a situation with any type of expectations.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

There’s only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I’ll get married again.

I’ll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it’s sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

If you ever need anything please don’t hesitate to ask someone else first.

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

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

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

I’m touring the world, not doing nothing against the law, getting money to feed my family. I got employees that have felonies, and they can’t get jobs. They work for me.

If I inspire you, pay for it, period.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

Sooner or later we’re all someone’s dog.

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.