My wife and I don’t compete. We know each other’s preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That’s what friends do.

I’ve known Ben Stiller for a minute. One of my first movies was ‚Along Came Polly.‘

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.

Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.

I’m just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence.

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

The fame isn’t important to me. It’s a blessing to have. Having so many people that support me, that love me and listen to my music, is beautiful.

It’s amazing, the culture Coach Belichick has been able to create in our system.

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

The painter who is familiar with the nature of the sinews, muscles, and tendons, will know very well, in giving movement to a limb, how many and which sinews cause it; and which muscle, by swelling, causes the contraction of that sinew; and which sinews, expanded into the thinnest cartilage, surround and support the said muscle.

You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s.

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don’t forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.

Still and all, why bother? Here’s my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.

Love is a serious mental disease.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

I’m more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

We tend to mistake music for the physical object.

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.

Brad was a huge surprise to me. I think we were both the last two people who were looking for a relationship. I certainly wasn’t. I was quite content to be a single mom with Mad.

Know your worth! People always act like they’re doing more for you than you’re doing for them.

You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred.

I’m more than comfortable just sitting back and scoring 21, 22 points or whatever and getting 10, 11 assists whatever the case might be. More than comfortable with that. It’s just a matter of the pieces that you have around you and what you can do to elevate everybody else.

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

People look at the same passage, and one person will say this is the best thing he’s ever read, and another person will say it’s absolutely idiotic. I mean, there’s no way to reconcile those two things. You just have to forget the whole business of what people are saying.

I have an urge to communicate. I think I’m a change from what it would be like dating a normal guy who doesn’t talk too much.

When I started Virgin from a basement in west London, there was no great plan or strategy. I didn’t set out to build a business empire… For me, building a business is all about doing something to be proud of, bringing talented people together and creating something that’s going to make a real difference to other people’s lives.

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.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one’s soul.

Love is a state of being.

We hunger to understand, so we invent myths about how we imagine the world is constructed – and they’re, of course, based upon what we know, which is ourselves and other animals. So we make up stories about how the world was hatched from a cosmic egg or created after the mating of cosmic deities or by some fiat of a powerful being.

My husband is everything to me and without him it’s just not the same.

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

They are resilient children, but they are children, and as much as they need help to understand the hard truths in life, they also need what we all need – protection and love.

It’s very hard for our parents who see us enter a world that they can’t imagine.

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

Though lovers be lost, love shall not.

No one wants advice – only corroboration.

I like the fact that Melbourne always seems to support their chefs and promote them in ways I find really admirable.

There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls, but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd. Of course, I expect this, but the knife still cuts.

Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.

I think if you follow anyone home, whether they live in Houston or London, and you sit at their dinner table and talk to them about their mother who has cancer or their child who is struggling in school, and their fears about watching their lives go by, I think we’re all the same.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

There are folks who now know black families – like the Johnsons on ‚Black-ish‘ or the folks on ‚Modern Family.‘ They become part of who you are. You share their pains. You understand their fears. They make you laugh, and they change how you see the world.

Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related.

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.

Of all the things I’ve done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.

People haven’t always been there for me, but music always has.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.