One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.

I had this child, and it destroyed my family.

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

Wives are people who feel they don’t dance enough.

You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.

I love that I can tell the truth and have people laugh at it.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

Only God can look at somebody’s heart.

If I love you, I show you I love you every day. Little things, big things.

In order to rally people, governments need enemies… if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.

Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can – that is their secret.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.

Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That’s definitely my first response. I think change is more likely to happen if both partners have common language and a shared lens to see problems.

One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

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?

The more I grow in popularity, the lonelier it gets. Because you don’t really know me. You just know this part of me. You fell in love with that. But it’s way more intricate than what meets the surface.

The wild Indian power of escaping observation, even where there is little or no cover to hide in, was probably slowly acquired in hard hunting and fighting lessons while trying to approach game, take enemies by surprise, or get safely away when compelled to retreat.

The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison.

Life’s too short to deal with other people’s insecurities.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.

Turkey must find its place if, of course, it can heal its internal sores, and none is more malignant than the perennial Kurdish issue.

I laugh all the time – at things, people, stuff, whatever. But, I don’t laugh onstage because then it’s serious business.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader.

Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

Love can do much, but duty more.

President Assad, I worked with. I know him reasonably well, met with him a few times, and he’s a liar.

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.

The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they’re gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you’re going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who’ll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you’re in the wrong house, that’s what it means.

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.

We’re so immaturely cynical as a culture. We’re not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they’re stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another.

Men exist for the sake of one another.

I’ve been careful in love. I’ve been careless in love. And I’ve had adventures I wouldn’t trade for anything.

A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.

Love is trembling happiness.

There are no rules when it comes to love.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.

Women don’t try to use me.

He who hath many friends hath none.

It’s a funny thing that when a man hasn’t anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that’s not so bad; but New York City?

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.

I was always making my friends laugh, but I never wanted the attention of the whole classroom.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

I’ve known and continue to know every one of these major world leaders by their first names, and I have access to them.

Men’s vows are women’s traitors!

I want someone who can trust that my big hands are going to take care of them.

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

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.