The average Hollywood film star’s ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

I’ve told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn’t kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.

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.

Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.

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.

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

When you have good friends you’ve been around, every time they talk, you don’t give them your full attention. You don’t look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you’re listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.

When people get married young, you don’t really understand the true definition of marriage.

Fame may go by and – so long, I’ve had you.

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.

I think I have had so much blessing – I’ve had my brother, who was brilliant – I think my family came closest to making a genius when they made my brother – Bailey was just all of that. He loved me.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

In my heart, I’m confident I could make a good president.

I searched for years I found no love. I’m sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

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

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‚I’ll buy a million dollars‘ worth of love.‘ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

Who, being loved, is poor?

Ever since I was a little kid, I wanted to be in combat.

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New, but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.

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.

Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don’t mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That’s not power. That’s just corruption.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

I didn’t tell any of my friends that I wanted to be a comedian, because I was superstitious. I thought if I told people, it wouldn’t happen. So I kept it all in my head for years and years.

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

I think everyone should be with who they love.

I think the perfection of love is that it’s not perfect.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.

I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.

I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals.

I think I should learn French and be a better cook – basic, really good life stuff.

There’s not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

Trash talk? Smack talk? This is an American term that makes me laugh. I simply speak the truth. I’m an Irish man.

The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side… It has revealed to us much about man’s shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological health.

That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.

It’s when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that’s the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.

Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

He that has not got a wife is not yet a complete man.

Ultimately, who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business.

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

Sometimes I’ve been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

I don’t have to ‚freedom-kiss‘ my wife when what I really want to do is French-kiss her.