Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

Patience is key for getting over a breakup. That, and trailing off your interaction after the breakup.

I try to see the good in everybody, and I don’t care who people are as long as they’re themselves, whatever that is.

Never elated when someone’s oppressed, never dejected when another one’s blessed.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

Creative people don’t behave very well generally. If you’re looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you’re gonna be depressed real fast. I don’t have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She’s my first priority.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

What I remember as a child is that other kids didn’t care about suffering. I always did.

People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can’t knock it.

You hear about actors being late and all that sort of stuff, but you never find that with an actor who’s directed, because an actor who’s directed understands all the problems your production is going through.

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.

No matter how beautiful a woman might be, you’re always threatened by certain… You’re always threatened by other women, period.

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

You can write a song about being in love with someone, but you don’t have to be in love with anyone.

Your friend is your needs answered.

I am not afraid of death, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

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

If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.

From the FA to UEFA and FIFA, there’s a naivety, a lack of knowledge and understanding and packed with people who are out of touch.

Many people find the universe confusing – it’s not.

Don’t let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don’t whine. You can be brought low, that’s OK, but don’t be reduced by them. Just say, ‚That’s life.‘

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

Who, being loved, is poor?

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

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.

I have noticed… that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.

I try to teach through my opinions, through my speeches, how wrong it is to judge people on the basis of what they look like, color of their skin, whether they’re men or women.

Politics has always been ugly to me, and yet I accept that as a fact of life.

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

Animals are my friends… and I don’t eat my friends.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

You can’t have a relationship with a device whose limits are unknown to you, because without limits, it keeps becoming something else.

In this day and age, when you can use a machine or computer to simulate or emulate what people can do together, it still can’t replace the magic of four people in a room playing.

I have a family, loving aunts, and a good home. No, on the surface I seem to have everything except my one true friend. All I think about when I’m with friends is having a good time. I can’t bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. We don’t seem to be able to get any closer, and that’s the problem.

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn’t make your house look any better.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don’t know if I’ll ever be as good a dad as my dad.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?… It is necessary to accompany them with mercy.

He who hath many friends hath none.

I wouldn’t say that anyone in fashion is on my side. I don’t think there’s anyone on my side.