No matter how beautiful a woman might be, you’re always threatened by certain… You’re always threatened by other women, period.

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.

The good is the beautiful.

Every man’s reputation proceeds from those of his own household.

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.

I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women… no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman’s skillet and the man’s ax-helve.

I think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It’s the Silicon Valley way of doing business: You either move very quickly and you work hard to improve your product technology, or you get destroyed by some other company.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

I can’t go out with a Republican.

Single life is so overrated.

Young love is wild and outrageous, laughing at moderation and blinding us to common sense.

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

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

Marathon running, like golf, is a game for players, not winners. That is why Callaway sells golf clubs and Nike sells running shoes. But running is unique in that the world’s best racers are on the same course, at the same time, as amateurs, who have as much chance of winning as your average weekend warrior would scoring a touchdown in the NFL.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

I don’t like perfumes that are too strong or sweet. I like a fragrance that is earthy and sensual and can be worn at any time.

I’ve had moments when I’ve thought about somebody, picked up the phone to call them and they are on the line already, and I think that maybe there’s some vibration, some connection.

Love is a serious mental disease.

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.

I feel like I’m the kind of guy that would have kids before getting married. The first thing would be kids.

Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that’s stripped down.

All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I’d worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: ‚Don’t hide these things from me. I’d rather you ask me these things straight out, and I’ll answer all your questions.‘

I’ve done the bad-boy thing. It was fun for a good three months. But the thing about bad boys is, you have to keep in mind, you’re never gonna marry a bad boy.

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.

That’s what you live for as a sportsman. You have to put up a fight.

You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they’re not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don’t care about money, and that’s not my problem.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

I’m pretty sure I don’t have any songs that are about how much I love someone. They’re all either about, like, ‚I hate you,‘ or ‚You make me hate me.‘

Like associates with like.

Horses make a landscape look beautiful.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

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.

When I get married, it’ll be no secret.

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.

I was already on pole, then by half a second and then one second and I just kept going. Suddenly I was nearly two seconds faster than anybody else, including my team mate with the same car.

A woman can’t be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can’t do it by herself.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

The more I see of deer, the more I admire them as mountaineers. They make their way into the heart of the roughest solitudes with smooth reserve of strength, through dense belts of brush and forest encumbered with fallen trees and boulder piles, across canons, roaring streams, and snow-fields, ever showing forth beauty and courage.

It’s true that I’ve never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.

What women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.

I can’t deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you.

It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.

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

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.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

Here’s what I’ve learned about deal-breakers. If you have enough natural chemistry with someone, you overlook every single thing that you said would break the deal.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

People just don’t understand how obsessed I am with winning.