The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you’re making a mistake but let you go on with it, that’s when it ruins your mind state as an artist.

No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

If you want to have sustained joy, you have to not only make sure that you think right, but you also have to make decisions now that are going to guarantee some joy in the future.

Let’s just be smart this time. I’m looking for smart.

Imagination decides everything.

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

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

I don’t want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.

If someone lies, well, you had a choice to trust that person or not. I think the way my father raised me, well, he trusted everybody. And that worked for him.

To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.

I think that a president needs to have a variety of views presented. But also, there has to be a team effort, because otherwise, I think it creates a dissonance and difficulty.

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.

I do not pilfer victory.

If you will do what God tells you to do, there’s no person on Earth and no devil in Hell that can keep you from having what God wants you to have.

Love always ends differently and it always begins differently – especially with me.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.

God has his plans and his reasons. Sometimes we are supposed to go through things so that we learn lessons.

Every President wants to do right.

It’s hard for anybody who’s been with me not to feel starved for affection when I’m making love to my ideas. Maybe it’s not meant for me to settle down and be married.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

All in all, I just don’t trust journalists – and I don’t think it’s a good practice for me to trust journalists.

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.

We’re hardwired for connection. There’s no arguing with the bioscience. But we can want it so badly we’re trying to hot-wire it.

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.

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.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

I haven’t had that one great love, which is good. I don’t want that to be in the past – I want it to be in the future.

So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

It’s so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

You can tell the tree by the fruit it bears. You see it through what the organization is delivering as far as a concrete program. If the tree’s fruit sours or grows brackish, then the time has come to chop it down – bury it and walk over it and plant new seeds.

I don’t write policy for my government.

To some extent I happily don’t know what I’m doing. I feel that it’s an artist’s responsibility to trust that.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

You’ve got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you’ve got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.

It’s true that I’ve never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.

I’m just telling you, God permits things in our lives sometimes for reasons that we do not understand yet because of the spiritual level that we’re on. We can’t have any understanding of it, because we’re not at a place of spiritual growth yet where we understand the deeper things of God.

A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

The sadness of the women’s movement is that they don’t allow the necessity of love. See, I don’t personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.

Understanding is a two-way street.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

Is it not important to find out how to listen not only to what is being said but to everything – to the noise in the streets, to the chatter of birds, to the noise of the tramcar, to the restless sea, to the voice of your husband, to your wife, to your friends, to the cry of a baby?

It’s not called quitting if you quit while you ahead. It’s about being aware and being strategic enough to know that you got to get out the pool at some point. You got to put your clothes back on and dry off.

I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

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.

Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.