We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

Hear reason, or she’ll make you feel her.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Creative people don’t behave very well generally. If you’re looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you’re gonna be depressed real fast. I don’t have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She’s my first priority.

As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.

I used to take my short stories to girls‘ homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

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

No matter how beautiful a woman might be, you’re always threatened by certain… You’re always threatened by other women, period.

Arthur Miller wouldn’t have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

When we trust God more than our feelings, it confuses the devil. I mean, when he throws you his best shot and he can’t budge you from believing God, he won’t know what to do with you anymore.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

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

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.

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

MySpace is my wife… Facebook is my mistress.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

It used to be the case, like you’d switch jobs, and then maybe you wouldn’t keep in touch with all the people that you knew from that old job, just because it was too hard. But one of the things that Facebook does is it makes it really easy to just stay in touch with all these people.

I think the perfection of love is that it’s not perfect.

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

Faith is about trusting God when you have unanswered questions.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

If I held you any closer I would be on the other side of you.

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it’s absolutely true.

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

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

I’m not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.

All you have in business is your reputation – so it’s very important that you keep your word.

There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.

In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that’s called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.

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

You don’t want to live your life and then meet someone. You want to share your life with someone. That’s what I’m missing right now.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‚understand‘ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Basically my wife was immature. I’d be at home in the bath and she’d come in and sink my boats.

Your friend is your needs answered.

The second time around, I’ll understand that, as a husband, my wife doesn’t care about my opinions. I just need to tell her the things that will continue to help me stack the brownie points.

Men want to make women happy.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

Familiarity breeds contempt – and children.

Do not rebuke mockers, or they will hate you; rebuke the wise, and they will love you.

There are two kinds of people in this world. ‚I‘ people and ‚we‘ people. I’ve always tried to be a ‚we‘ person.

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

It is better to be deceived by one’s friends than to deceive them.

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.