One of life’s terrible truths is that women like guys who seem to know what they’re doing.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

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.

Since the team understands that the leader is de facto in charge, in that respect, a leader has nothing to prove. But in another respect, a leader has everything to prove: Every member of the team must develop the trust and confidence that their leader will exercise good judgment, remain calm, and make the right decisions when it matters most.

I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don’t know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.

If I’d married someone in show business, there’d be too much competition.

For me, it’s enough that I have the first and last word.

I will not be concerned at other men’s not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

Let me tell you what I literally told every world leader I’ve met with, and I’ve met them all: It’s never, never, never been a good bet to bet against America. We have the finest fighting force in the world.

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?

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

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.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.

You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don’t know what’s goin‘ on, I then got the money, and gone.

I’ve got a crush on my backing singer.

The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

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.

I’ve found that men I’ve dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I’ve found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren’t competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been… challenging.

Love is a state of being.

When your mother asks, ‚Do you want a piece of advice?‘ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.

So when I speak in front of thousands, tens of thousands of people, I don’t really get nervous because I know what I want to say and I know what message I want to give.

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.

I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

I am a bit of a solitude person – a solitary personality. I like being on my own. I don’t have any major friendships or relationships with people.

You have to feel confident. If you don’t, then you’re going to be hesitant and defensive, and there’ll be a lot of things working against you.

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

I’ve done a lot of things I’m not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that.

I say that in the most humble way: I always knew that I could perform with the best of ‚em and I could deliver with the best of ‚em.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‚understand‘ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

I’m crazy and I don’t pretend to be anything else.

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing – hopefully.

It is not so much our friends‘ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

In my heart, I’m confident I could make a good president.

I’m just a friendly person; that runs in my family.

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.

Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don’t mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That’s not power. That’s just corruption.

I’m a girls‘ girl. I have guy friends, but the problem with having guy friends is, like, I always get linked to them, and they’ll end up in a slideshow of people I’ve apparently dated on the Internet.

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

I’ve had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it’s not what I look for when I’m seeing someone.

I am fearless.

Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

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

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.

Confidence, as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I loved cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.

They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.

One of the powerful temptations is that of the cinema palace. The cinema has undoubtedly an enormous attraction for boys, and people are constantly cudgelling their brains how to stop it. But it is one of those things which would be very difficult to stop even if it were altogether desirable.

Don’t be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.

Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.