The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

I don’t have a type. I don’t have a specific kind of human being. It’s just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I’ve ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.

My wife and I are very affectionate.

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility – I welcome it.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

In hip-hop, there’s not a lot of love. There’s not a lot of love being spread. It’s always like ‚I’m stuntin‘ on you raps, or I’m better than you raps.‘ It’s not a lot of ‚Yo man, I idolize you raps.‘

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

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

Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered… to feel she is the most important thing in someone’s world. Only a man can paint this picture.

A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.

The joy and love that I get from playing football are unbelievable. It is such a feeling that I want to give everything that I have got. I just enjoy it, I am living a life that I never even dreamt of.

I mean, families are weird.

I think that you can love people without it being the great love.

He that has not got a wife is not yet a complete man.

I think there are things that are based in your own dealings with someone that is a personal dealing, not a public dealing. Because you have personal experiences.

A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

Men’s vows are women’s traitors!

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

I used to take my short stories to girls‘ homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?

Politics doesn’t make strange bedfellows – marriage does.

You can always tell when a man’s well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.

We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.

I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.

That’s what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he’s wise.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

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.

I know I’m talented, but I wasn’t put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but it’s not where it begins and ends.

Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can’t ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment’s notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow – that’s vulnerability.

Brad was a huge surprise to me. I think we were both the last two people who were looking for a relationship. I certainly wasn’t. I was quite content to be a single mom with Mad.

It’s much more fun to play something you’re nothing like than what you are… It’s much easier to hide yourself in a character.

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

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

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

The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.

Absolutely not. I have no problem with commitment. In fact, I love having someone in my life.

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet’s heart when caught and tangled in a woman’s body?

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.

Life must be lived as play.

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend’s griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother’s happiness.

What good am I? I can’t have kids. I can’t cook. I’ve been divorced three times. Who would want me?

Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

This man used to go to school with his dog. Then they were separated. His dog graduated!

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

Remember, it’s as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

Fame may go by and – so long, I’ve had you.

Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

In God’s family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.