The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.

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.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

Understanding is a two-way street.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

I don’t like freeloaders; I don’t like people who are negative.

It’s hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don’t always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.

I wouldn’t say that anyone in fashion is on my side. I don’t think there’s anyone on my side.

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

I don’t know what’s better gettin‘ laid or gettin‘ paid.

People take the little bit of information they’re fed, and they draw a picture of who you are. Most of the time, it’s wrong.

I think we all change each other’s paths. I don’t know which law idea that is in physics, but I don’t think any of us can live without affecting one another.

My friends, there are no friends.

It’s important to love in hip hop.

My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.

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

It’s probably the worst feeling in the world, when you’re deeply and madly in love with a woman and you know she’s not feeling you the same way, and you don’t know why.

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

I’m pretty sure I don’t have any songs that are about how much I love someone. They’re all either about, like, ‚I hate you,‘ or ‚You make me hate me.‘

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.

I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.

I’d love to date somebody cool, fun, funny.

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I’m a realist.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.

You stay teachable most by reading books. By reading what other people went through.

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

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

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.

I think the perfection of love is that it’s not perfect.

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

The rise of capitalist practice and morality brought with it a radical revision of how the commons are treated, and also of how they are conceived.

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital.

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

If you’re put on a pedestal, you’re supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Dividers seek to make themselves look or feel better by making others feel worse. They damage relationships, fracture teams and organizations, and create havoc in people’s lives.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

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

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

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

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

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.

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

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

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.

I’m just going to say it: I’m pro-guilt. Guilt is good. Guilt helps us stay on track because it’s about our behavior. It occurs when we compare something we’ve done – or failed to do – with our personal values.

Everybody has their thing they like or don’t like to see. It’s all in your head. That’s why people take their own pictures, because it’s difficult for someone else to capture what you seek.

I thank God I’m myself and for the life I’m given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

People are underestimating the force of angry kids.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.