No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

I’ve had no contact with my daughter for years. That’s her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don’t want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.

I rely on other people every day of my life.

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.

You don’t sign up for a divorce when you get married. It’s very painful. But it’s taught me a great deal about myself.

I have discovered that my interest in my dear pupil, Mabel, has ripened into a far deeper feeling than that of mere friendship. In fact, I know that I have learned to love her very sincerely.

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.

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

When you’re a little kid, you don’t see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

People like music when they’re in love, but they don’t need it as much. You need music when you’re missing someone or you’re pining for someone or you’re forgetting someone or you’re trying to process what just happened.

Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.

To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

Love is not consolation. It is light.

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.

A friend is nothing but a known enemy.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

It is fun to be in the same decade with you.

Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it.

I had no bad moment in my relationship with Dortmund. Not one second.

I love my daddy. My daddy’s everything. I hope I can find a man that will treat me as good as my dad.

I don’t think there’s an option for me to fall in love slowly or at medium speed. I either do, or I don’t.

Fear is real, but so is love.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.

Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.

You see, at the end of the day, my most important title is still ‚mom-in-chief.‘ My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world.

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.

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

I do love the films I’ve done in the past. I work hard in my movies and my friends work hard and we’re trying to make people laugh and I’m very proud of that.

Throughout my life, I’ve always been really close with girls and made friends with girls. And I’ve always been a really sickly, feminine person anyhow, so I thought I was gay for a while because I didn’t find any of the girls in my high school attractive at all.

Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.

You don’t want to live your life and then meet someone. You want to share your life with someone. That’s what I’m missing right now.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

I love Brad in every state.

Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

I love sleep; it’s my favorite.

For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

I knew through the surgeries that he was on my side and that this wasn’t something where I was gonna feel less of a woman, because my husband wasn’t gonna let that happen.

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

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.