Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

What the heck is true love? I remember feeling, back when I was 12 and ‚going‘ with this girl, ‚Is this true love?‘

Love is a state of being.

The Hindu religions gave me the impression of a vast well into which one plunges in order to grasp the reflection of the sun.

San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.

I think there are things that are based in your own dealings with someone that is a personal dealing, not a public dealing. Because you have personal experiences.

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

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?

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Women – always in trouble with them, but can’t live without them.

Wonder is the basis of worship.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

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.

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

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.

I do not think that I am a natural born mother… If I ever wanted to mother anyone, it was my father.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?

My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father’s head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.

I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

When I say I’m going to take care of a woman, I don’t just mean physically or sexually or romantically. I’m going to take care of her emotionally and spiritually. I’m going to take care of her in all ways. I take a lot of pride in that today.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

I do not like broccoli. And I haven’t liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I’m President of the United States and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli.

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

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.

But there is a difference between cozying up to power and being close to power.

I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

Why do Jewish divorces cost so much? They’re worth it.

I just want to make sure when I have kids, I can spend time with them. That’s the whole point.

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.

If we don’t know life, how can we know death?

I had my first baby at twenty-one.

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

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, ‚Did you sleep good?‘ I said ‚No, I made a few mistakes.‘

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.

We have lived long enough to experience the hollowness of earth and the rottenness of all carnal promises.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.

Familiarity breeds contempt – and children.

I’m dying to be a great dad one day, whenever that day comes.

If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.

All you need is love.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.

When I take my kid to school, all the parents stop and stare.