Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‚yours,‘ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

I’ve laid my friends bare.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

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.

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

I think I have to trust that you end up with the person you’re supposed to end up with, and that everything in between is there to teach you stuff.

Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one’s life.

The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don’t think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I’m with them.

Ranking among the greatest Christmas movie classics, ‚It’s a Wonderful Life‘ tells a beautiful story about the priceless value of relationships.

I’m not denyin‘ the women are foolish. God Almighty made ‚em to match the men.

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

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

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.

We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

I’m a songwriter. Everything affects me.

Smiling makes me feel weak and not in control and not powerful and small.

There are certain nights you and your image just aren’t in the same bed.

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

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

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.

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.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

I’ve often felt depressed; everyone feels depressed.

You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

I’m not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred.

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

Like associates with like.

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

Women. They are a complete mystery.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

You pay a certain penalty for going your own way. A lot of people think you’re nuts, and you’re not as popular with girls as you should be.

If you like a person you say ‚let’s go into business together.‘ Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.

I would be married, but I’d have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

When you find a guy who is powerful, a big father figure, you latch onto him immediately.

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.

I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I’m not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.

Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.