Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

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. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we’re even alive at all.

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

There are three faithful friends – an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

I love life because what more is there?

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.

I have some good friends of my own who happen to be gay, and when it comes to gay, straight, or whatever, I’m for anything life-affirmative. I’m for gay power, straight power, male power, female power; everybody should feel empowered without oppressing anyone who’s different.

I know that I’m not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don’t know how not to.

If I love you, I show you I love you every day. Little things, big things.

I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems.

When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real. That is my world, you could say.

The more I grow in popularity, the lonelier it gets. Because you don’t really know me. You just know this part of me. You fell in love with that. But it’s way more intricate than what meets the surface.

Facts are stubborn things.

I spend a lot of time just, you know, with my girlfriend and my dog. And I mean, we don’t have a lot of furniture in our house, so it’s really simple. And we’re trying to build products for everyone in the world, right. And you don’t want to get isolated to do that.

When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.

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 don’t hate women – they just sometimes make me mad.

I’m grateful for always this moment, the now, no matter what form it takes.

‚Thank you‘ is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

Instead of being critical of people in authority over you and envious of their position, be happy you’re not responsible for everything they have to do. Instead of piling on complaints, thank them for what they do. Overwhelm them with encouragement and appreciation!

God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

Every day is a gift from God, no matter how old we are.

To get a hold on boys you must be their friend.

Facebook is really about communicating and telling stories… We think that people can really help spread awareness of organ donation and that they want to participate in this to their friends. And that can be a big part of helping solve the crisis that’s out there.

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

I became a people-watcher when I lost all my friends when I was 12.

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.

When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own.

It’s possible – you can never know – that the universe exists only for me. If so, it’s sure going well for me, I must admit.

Love can do much, but duty more.

When it comes to social media, there are just times I turn off the world, you know. There are just some times you have to give yourself space to be quiet, which means you’ve got to set those phones down.

Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn’t know it then.

I can’t stress to you enough how much I can relate to teens being cyberbullied. Something that helps me is looking at old videos of me and my friends from middle school, or videos of my family. I love watching funny videos of my favorite people – it really cheers me up.

It always seems odd to me that the fundamental laws of physics, when discovered, can appear in so many different forms that are not apparently identical at first, but, with a little mathematical fiddling, you can show the relationship.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

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

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

The public doesn’t mind people living together without being married, providing they don’t overdo it.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

I need physics more than friends.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

When Facebook was getting started, nothing used real identity – everything was anonymous or pseudonymous – and I thought that real identity should play a bigger part than it did.

I didn’t want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that’s a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I’m proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.

If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died.

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.

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.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

We are not going to be satisfied by politicians saying ‚we support you‘ and then walking away. We won’t be satisfied until they meet our demands and act. That’s why simply taking a selfie or posting support on Twitter isn’t enough. That’s why we have to keep striking.

I’ve done the bad-boy thing. It was fun for a good three months. But the thing about bad boys is, you have to keep in mind, you’re never gonna marry a bad boy.

I think we all change each other’s paths. I don’t know which law idea that is in physics, but I don’t think any of us can live without affecting one another.