The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

If I held you any closer I would be on the other side of you.

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

T stands for being nice. T stands for manners. T stands for being polite.

Friend, there’s no greater investment in life than in being a people builder. Relationships are more important than our accomplishments.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

Alimony – the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.

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

The kindness that’s been shown to me, by doctors as well as my family and my friends, it’s really saved my life.

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

We don’t get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like – that’s a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.

I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don’t think anybody has held this job who hasn’t felt personally responsible for those being killed.

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

You know that your happiness and suffering depend on the happiness and suffering of others. That insight helps you not to do wrong things that will bring suffering to yourself and to other people.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

Marriage is the death of hope.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.

Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

Patience is key for getting over a breakup. That, and trailing off your interaction after the breakup.

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That’s when you can get more creative in solving problems.

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

When I was two, a dragonfly flew near me. A man knocked it to the ground and trod on it. I remember crying because I’d caused the dragonfly to be killed.

I’m no longer just a candidate. I’m the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn’t return. I’ve shared the pain of families who’ve lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who’ve lost their jobs.

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

My husband says I look like a Q-tip.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

It’s very inexpensive to give a compliment.

We need to show mercy. I mean, because as much mercy as you show people, that’s the mercy you’re going to be receiving.

When you find a guy who is powerful, a big father figure, you latch onto him immediately.

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

To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn’t be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

My dad was never married. He was kind of a rolling stone. But he was never disrespectful. At the same time, even though he had women in his life when I was a kid, there wasn’t any consistency.

I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.

It’s not a slam at you when people are rude, it’s a slam at the people they’ve met before.

The way people look at me these days – that’s the same way I looked at President Obama before I met him. We tend to forget that people who’ve attained a certain position are human.

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.

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: With mindfulness, you can see that she is unhappy, that she is suffering. You can see her wrong perceptions. You can see that she is not beautiful when she says things that are unkind.

America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children.

I have good friends who are politicians on both sides.

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

If I love you, I show you I love you every day. Little things, big things.

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

Logically, harmony must come from the heart… Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.

If every man loves his mother, he’s going to treat the ladies right, with love and respect.

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

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

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone’s wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.