True friends stab you in the front.

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

I didn’t have a father figure in the house.

I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other – and we still are.

Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

Trust is central to an economy that works.

For me, it’s about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It’s where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that’s very important to me.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

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

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or ‚our‘ country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.

I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone’s inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.

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

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

A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

We learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds, they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material.

Men and women do think differently, and frankly, we don’t understand each other. Not at all! But that’s what makes relationships so amazing.

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.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.

I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

You can write a song about being in love with someone, but you don’t have to be in love with anyone.

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don’t know if it’s possible forever and ever.

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

I was never a boy magnet at school. There was always the girl all the guys liked and wanted to date, but it was never me.

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

Prime Minister Netanyahu has, as Minister Livni knows, has been my friend for over 30 years. We drive each other crazy. But he has truly been a personal friend for well over 30 years. He acknowledged this.

I’ve got a crush on my backing singer.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

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?

If someone is right for you, you’ll know it.

I do know this: God does answer your prayers, but it’s not always in the way you expect. God knows what’s best for us, though, so there’s no need to worry when things don’t go how we originally wanted them to go.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

I am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.

I believe God’s keeping the records, and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life. Somehow, some way, God will make it up to you. It may be He protected you from an accident you never knew. You can’t give God something without God giving you more in return, whether it’s peace or joy or satisfaction.

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals.

I read the NY Times but I don’t trust all of it.

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.

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.

Most poets are young simply because they have not been caught up. Show me an old poet, and I’ll show you, more often than not, either a madman or a master… it’s when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order simply to make a poem that you fail. That is why I do not rework poems.

It’s a funny thing that when a man hasn’t anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

Trying to meet new women, it’s always a little more difficult as opposed to calling somebody I knew that’s single and trying to rebuild that connection.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.