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

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.

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

I can’t go out with a Republican.

Friends are thieves of time.

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it’s to have any meaning in this world – and stop being its apologist.

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that justifies this goodness and this love?

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

Love is the one wild card.

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.

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.

I love the sea.

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

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

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

In order to have friends, you must first be one.

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I’m upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.

I think women go crazy for a reason. It’s not like it just happens.

Do not rebuke mockers, or they will hate you; rebuke the wise, and they will love you.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

We’re so immaturely cynical as a culture. We’re not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they’re stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another.

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

If you get down and quarell everyday, you’re saying prayers to the devil, I say.

I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness.

Where thou art, that is home.

He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.

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.

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.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

I’ve… been accused of being involved with every man I’m ever seen with or worked with. Maybe I have, maybe I ain’t. I never tell if I have.

‚Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

Women can’t do everything at the same time, we need to understand milestones in our lives comes in segments.

Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone… Bad food is fake food… food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people’s ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

Don’t ever call a guy first. The thing they want the most is whatever they can’t have. It sounds really juvenile, but it works.

No matter what, I always make it home for Christmas. I love to go to my Tennessee Mountain Home and invite all of my nieces and nephews and their spouses and kids and do what we all like to do – eat, laugh, trade presents and just enjoy each other… and sometimes I even dress up like Santa Claus!

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

Only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn’t care what kind of movies I made.

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

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people’s happiness.

I want someone who can trust that my big hands are going to take care of them.

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

I’ve never had a divorce, but I’ve seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can’t write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I’m able to kind of express it, or their joy.

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

My mother was and will always remain my greatest hero.

Keeping score is for games, not friendships.

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.