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 suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I’ve done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?

Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.

I have an urge to communicate. I think I’m a change from what it would be like dating a normal guy who doesn’t talk too much.

Eating is so intimate. It’s very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you’re inviting a person into your life.

It’s really annoying for me. That’s not what I’m playing for, to be the face of the NBA or to be this or that or to take LeBron’s throne or whatever.

There is no distinctly American criminal class – except Congress.

I worked with someone who told me they’d never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

Dividers seek to make themselves look or feel better by making others feel worse. They damage relationships, fracture teams and organizations, and create havoc in people’s lives.

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

I don’t like being alone.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

Ranking among the greatest Christmas movie classics, ‚It’s a Wonderful Life‘ tells a beautiful story about the priceless value of relationships.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

There’s a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more.

I think everyone should be with who they love.

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love – first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April.

Often, in the real world, it’s not the smart that get ahead but the bold.

Arthur Miller wouldn’t have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.

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

I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.

I think the whole stigma of ‚black movies‘ is slowly being lost. When you look at movies like ’12 Years A Slave,‘ to ‚The Butler,‘ to ‚The Best Man,‘ to ‚Ride Along,‘ to even ‚Think Like a Man‘ from last year – these movies are just good movies.

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.

I always wanted a family.

I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone’s inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.

Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

I know a lot of people say they always believed they could get into F1, but I didn’t quite believe that, certainly not when I was 7 and maybe not until I was 14. It was always so far away.

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.

Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

Expect me to continue what I’ve been doing, which is trying to take over the world.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

I always wanted to be a Vine star. I wasn’t, thank God.

I’ve had moments when I’ve thought about somebody, picked up the phone to call them and they are on the line already, and I think that maybe there’s some vibration, some connection.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

‚The Story of Us‘ is about running into someone I had been in a relationship with at an awards show, and we were seated a few seats away from each other. I just wanted to say to him, ‚Is this killing you? Because it’s killing me.‘ But I didn’t. Because I couldn’t. Because we both had these silent shields up.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

I feel like I’m the kind of guy that would have kids before getting married. The first thing would be kids.

There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving – by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.

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.

You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.

You know, I’m trying to chase rings, and that’s all I’m about. So that’s where the conversation stops for me.

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there’s too much fraternizing with the enemy.