No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

Not necessity, not desire – no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything – health, food, a place to live, entertainment – they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it’s a better way of telling the stories.

It’s hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don’t always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‚I’ll buy a million dollars‘ worth of love.‘ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

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.

When I was married, I definitely went through a lying period.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we’re going to be miserable. In fact, many times we believe it’s our problems that are making us unhappy when, in reality, it’s because we’re focused on ourselves!

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

I just love working with Eminem. He’s just one of my favorite rappers, and his lyrics – he’s a true poet, and I enjoy that about him.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it’s to have any meaning in this world – and stop being its apologist.

I have noticed… that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.

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

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

How happy had it been for me had I been slain in the battle. It had been far more noble to have died the victim of the enemy than fall a sacrifice to the rage of my friends.

We were born with a capacity to grow, love, marry, and form families.

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.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

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

I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

I admire people who destroy themselves.

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

I used to wonder if it was God’s plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

I do have a lot of gays in my family now, but some will never come out.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

Everyone has been in love, at some point or another.

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

The word ‚happy‘ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

Every once in a while I get the highly inappropriate proposal which is like, ‚Wow, Really! You don’t even know me and I don’t know you at all, and you want that to happen? Tonight? Ok, I get off work at 7.30.‘

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

My father wasn’t a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher – one of those Victorians, hard as iron – but my dad was tough enough.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.