Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.

An onion can make people cry but there’s never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.

Of course you can’t ‚trust‘ what people tell you on the web anymore than you can ‚trust‘ what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restaurants. Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.

I’ve missed out on a lot of things, going out with friends.

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

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

So many guys are so conservative with their hair, and I always joke with all my buddies when they mess with me, and I’ll say, ‚That’s right, keep the same haircut for ten years.‘ How fun is that?

I’m good friends with Jay Leno, good friends with Ed O’Neill, Melanie Fiona and Russell Simmons.

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that – is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

I love to flirt, and I’ve never met a man I didn’t like.

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.

I will never be happy without having someone. Going to sleep alone kills me.

Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel’s. It will be a strong friend of Israel’s under a McCain administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel’s under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change.

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

A yawn is a silent shout.

The more you explain it, the more I don’t understand it.

People were saying that David Geffen and I had gotten married and it just blew me away. Not that they thought I was gay, but that they thought I could land a guy that hot.

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!

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’ve fallen into a trap of ever-widening orbits of contact, and there is a total disregard for the present moment.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

All mankind love a lover.

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

Because I know about the Holy Land, I’ve taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and – but you can’t bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well.

Wars based on principle are far more destructive… the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I’m a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself – all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.

The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.

The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.

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

Hatred is settled anger.

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

I can’t consciously explain how people feel after reading my books. All is too personal.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

Fear is exciting for me.

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Lovers often invest their first meetings with retrospective significance, as if to try to conjure the elements of the numinous out of the stubborn witness of the everyday.

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

When we’re falling in love or out of it, that’s when we most need a song that says how we feel. Yeah, I write a lot of songs about boys. And I’m very happy to do that.

In a false quarrel there is no true valor.

My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don’t share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.

The human heart is the same the world over.

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

If it’s going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

Men’s vows are women’s traitors!

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.