The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

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.

Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

Intimates are predestined.

Fear is the mother of morality.

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.

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 purposely don’t talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But I do say that I want you to be blessed. To me, prosperity is having health, having great children, having peace, good relationships. It’s not about the money.

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

I always wanted to be loved.

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.

Any man who doesn’t love his mama can’t be no friend of mine.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

Counsel with your parents is a privilege at any age.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It’s the magic sauce.

It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.

There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we’ll fail, and sometimes we’ll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you’ll find support.

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

The security of Israel is a moral imperative for all free peoples.

The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison.

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

My role in society, or any artist’s or poet’s role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.

No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

I don’t think there’s an option for me to fall in love slowly or at medium speed. I either do, or I don’t.

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

NATO has been a thread throughout my life.

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

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

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

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

I would be married, but I’d have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

You gotta understand: I believe a woman should praise the man, the king. If you holding it down for your woman, I feel like the woman should praise. And the man should praise the queen.

The lie is a condition of life.