Understanding is a two-way street.

Give to everyone who begs from you; and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

For so many people, television and movies may be the only way they understand people who aren’t like them.

Counsel with your parents is a privilege at any age.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.

In my house I’m the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio.

I had no bad moment in my relationship with Dortmund. Not one second.

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

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

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

I’ve had no contact with my daughter for years. That’s her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don’t want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.

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

Listen with your eyes for feelings.

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

The American people have not become heartless.

To be loved is very demoralizing.

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own.

I’m going to save my public voice largely for the issues where I have some depth.

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

You pity the fool because you don’t want to beat up a fool! You know, pity is between sorry and mercy. See, if you pity him, you know, you won’t have to beat him up. So that’s why I say fools, you gotta give another chance because they don’t know no better. That’s why I pity them!

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

Humans cannot avoid trying to influence others. Everything we say or do is examined and interpreted by others for clues as to our intentions.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

It has been hard for me to find it, but I have found love.

Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

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

You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you.

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.

I have a collective sense of suffering.

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

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

If you like a person you say ‚let’s go into business together.‘ Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.

In the early days of the military Arpanet, my daughter was studying in Nicaragua. Because the U.S. was essentially at war with them, contact was difficult. I managed to use MIT’s Arpanet connection, and she found one, so we could communicate thanks to the Pentagon!

There are a lot of self-imposed restrictions by people who somehow believe they have to fall in with a certain military cant. There was always a sense that we had to put things into words that would touch our troops‘ hearts, not just their heads.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

It is necessary to fall in love… if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

There is always another way to say the same thing that doesn’t look at all like the way you said it before. I don’t know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature.

A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.

Letters are something from you. It’s a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail.

Many religious confessions share common values. They teach that we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us.

There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

I take my kids to school. And if I go to work, I go to work, and they visit me on set. I come home. I have dinner with my family. I have breakfast with my family. I have a very solid, very warm home.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

Every time I see documentaries or infomercials about little kids with cancer, I just freak out. It affects me on the highest emotional level… Anytime I think about it, it makes me sadder than anything I can think of.

The public doesn’t mind people living together without being married, providing they don’t overdo it.

A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.

I don’t like cream puff, corny guys. Usually, they are the nice guys, the ones that won’t hurt you. They’ll pull out the chair for you and the whole nine yards. Everything is perfect and boring.