True friends stab you in the front.

Pray, and let God worry.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

Obviously, you go through a lot of emotional turmoil in a divorce.

Crankiness is at the essence of all comedy. My wife and I were discussing the different types of cranky. There’s entertaining cranky, annoying cranky, angry cranky.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

If I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people – including me – would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged.

I think that it’s okay to be mad at someone who hurt you. This isn’t about, like, the pageantry of trying to seem like nothing affects you.

I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

Every man’s reputation proceeds from those of his own household.

Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn’t it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?

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

Single life is so overrated.

If we’re really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what’s causing us to do what we do.

Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.

Men’s vows are women’s traitors!

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

If you want to get each individual’s honest opinion, you don’t want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less allow a group to coordinate what they are going to say.

The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

We never love a person, but only qualities.

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.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

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

When you come to see a picture of mine, I want you to know that I’m not going to do anything that will make you uncomfortable. I want you to know that you won’t be disappointed in me.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

She’s been married so many times she has rice marks on her face.

I never thought I’d have children; I never thought I’d be in love, I never thought I’d meet the right person. Having come from a broken home – you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don’t look for them.

Why lie? I’m not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think, like some others do.

My mother did not like children.

Men who think that a woman’s past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.

If I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems.

Counsel with your parents is a privilege at any age.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

Me and my dad are friends. We’re cool. I’ll never be disappointed again, because I don’t expect anything anymore from him. I just let him exist, and that’s how we get along.

I met Woz when I was 13, at a friend’s garage. He was about 18. He was, like, the first person I met who knew more electronics than I did at that point. We became good friends, because we shared an interest in computers and we had a sense of humor. We pulled all kinds of pranks together.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.

I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.

Have you ever thought how humiliating and distressing it was to be placed upon a sphere? For friendship it is a boon never to be able to be further apart than the antipodes. But suppose that you are leaving together to go on and on; it is impossible. To go beyond a certain point is to return to where you began.

I don’t think you ever really know what all you’re doing, so you have to act on faith.

Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy.

I love my friends and my past, and it’s made me who I am.

Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.

I have a very good family. I’m very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It’s one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.

Is it not important to find out how to listen not only to what is being said but to everything – to the noise in the streets, to the chatter of birds, to the noise of the tramcar, to the restless sea, to the voice of your husband, to your wife, to your friends, to the cry of a baby?

We can be civil. We can still be friends, and be Democrats and Republicans, and have different views.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

Trust is hard to come by. That’s why my circle is small and tight. I’m kind of funny about making new friends.