Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.

Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

The time to worrying about flying is when you’re on the ground. When you’re up in the air, it’s too late. No point in worrying about it then.

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

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

I’ve… been accused of being involved with every man I’m ever seen with or worked with. Maybe I have, maybe I ain’t. I never tell if I have.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.

I had a much better view with the halo than I expected.

If you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing.

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

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.

When I write, it’s like choosing which shoes I’m going to put on. More often than not, my lyrics are personal – but I sometimes have to put myself in other people’s shoes.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

I’m working at trying to be a Christian, and that’s serious business. It’s like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy – it’s serious business.

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

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

Really showing love requires more than just words.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad.

It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

No one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert by yourself, but you are related. You cannot escape from that absolute fact. You cannot exist in isolation.

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

She’s been married so many times she has rice marks on her face.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn’t everything.

Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it – and sometimes three.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open.

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn’t do anything to you, but since you aren’t wise, you need us who are old.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.

Great loves too must be endured.

I never get too high on my stardom or what I can do.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

If I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I’ll die someday, and one day, they will too.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.

I think any man who lets a woman pick what he should wear… I mean, you gotta draw the line somewhere as a man. I see these guys, ‚My wife told me to wear this!‘ And I just shake my head.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.

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

It’s not that I’m afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

I find with most of my readers are kind of like me, sort of people who were a little bit naive in life and then learned the hard way that this is what’s going on, the political games and most of my readers write to me telling me that the book helped them open their eyes to what other people are doing to them.

Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

It used to be the case, like you’d switch jobs, and then maybe you wouldn’t keep in touch with all the people that you knew from that old job, just because it was too hard. But one of the things that Facebook does is it makes it really easy to just stay in touch with all these people.