There was one incident at a movie theater where my girl got mad at these guys who were talking behind us. I never looked back there, but she was like, ‚Will you all just shut up!‘ And I just got up and moved three rows in front. She was like, ‚What are you doing?!‘ I was like, ‚You better get up here! I don’t play the fighting games.‘

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

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

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

When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don’t want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren’t. There are pranks, IMs.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

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

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn’t make your house look any better.

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.‘

I’ve been a lot more into Facebook and Twitter and Instagram, which was a bit complicated for me to understand the language of each social media, because they all talk in different ways. It’s a nice way for me to tell people I appreciate them, which I forget to do sometimes.

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

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

When I’m nervous, I stutter, and I had to keep stopping and starting.

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

Assuming if there’s such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?

When I get married, it’ll be no secret.

Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don’t mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That’s not power. That’s just corruption.

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings – words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

The first time you say something, it’s heard. The second time, it’s recognized, and the third time it’s learned.

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

I’m drawn to bad romances.

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

There’s only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I’ll get married again.

If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that’s not so bad; but New York City?

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday.

Stage actors are usually much more conscious of speaking up and making sure that everyone can hear in the back of the theatre; a film actor probably thinks of that a little less.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

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

The more you know the less you need to say.

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

Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That’s what’s important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

Though lovers be lost, love shall not.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.

President Assad, I worked with. I know him reasonably well, met with him a few times, and he’s a liar.

It’s not proper for the government to intrude too thoroughly into the domain of the family. It’s inappropriate.

As we dread any disease that undermines the health of the body, so should we deplore contention, which is a corroding canker of the spirit.

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

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

I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader – or any person – in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

If you’ve heard this story before, don’t stop me, because I’d like to hear it again.

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

One thing that I tell people all the time is, ‚I’m not going to answer a call from you after nine o’clock at night or before nine o’clock in the morning unless it’s an emergency.‘

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

Whoever the coach is, my job is to talk to him, understand him and be a better player under him and give my best.

‚The Story of Us‘ is about running into someone I had been in a relationship with at an awards show, and we were seated a few seats away from each other. I just wanted to say to him, ‚Is this killing you? Because it’s killing me.‘ But I didn’t. Because I couldn’t. Because we both had these silent shields up.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

A friend is nothing but a known enemy.

When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it’s Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.