To me, if you’re trying to impress a girl, get a date, they’re gonna like that more because you’re a confident guy. That’s what it comes down to.

If we don’t plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don’t have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don’t have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

I’ve told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn’t kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.

Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.

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.

Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.

I’m a human being and I fall in love and sometimes I don’t have control of every situation.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

I wasn’t a pretty girl. I was six feet tall at 15, you know.

I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

I’m much more comfortable and confident running out on the field in front of 70,000 people instead of standing in front of a camera trying to say some lines. The people who do that as a profession are very talented because it’s certainly not easy.

I grew up around lots of men – my father, my brothers, my uncles – so I wasn’t intimidated by them.

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I’m willing to show you. In you, it’s courage and daring. In me, it’s weakness.

I’m a girls‘ girl. I have guy friends, but the problem with having guy friends is, like, I always get linked to them, and they’ll end up in a slideshow of people I’ve apparently dated on the Internet.

When you’re coming up with new material, it’s not always gonna be good. The only way to learn is for it not to get a laugh, so you can adjust it and come back the next day to see if it’s working right. Next time, you might get a different laugh. You’re constantly rebuilding.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

I’ve missed out on a lot of things, going out with friends.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.

I have made a few mistakes early on that I admit myself, and there have been times when I have gone over the top and done things that you shouldn’t do in international cricket, but that’s how you learn.

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.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

There’s nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It’s a thing no married man knows anything about.

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.

If you’re not ready for everything, you’re not ready for anything.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

I’m crazy and I don’t pretend to be anything else.

If you deserve it, go get it.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Nothing on ‚Relapse‘ and very little on ‚Recovery‘ was produced by me.

The only shame is to have none.

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there’s nothing really to talk about.

To add value to others, one must first value others.

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

You gotta understand: I believe a woman should praise the man, the king. If you holding it down for your woman, I feel like the woman should praise. And the man should praise the queen.

Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s.

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

I try not to go around looking like a hag.

You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.