We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen.

It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend’s folly.

Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don’t know if I’ll ever be as good a dad as my dad.

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

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls, but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd. Of course, I expect this, but the knife still cuts.

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

Like every parent, when you start your family, your life completely changes. And you completely live for someone else. I find that the most extraordinary thing. Your life is handed over to someone else. From that moment on, they come first in every choice you make. It’s the most wonderful thing.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

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.

Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

When I worked on a magazine, I learned that there are many, many writers writing that can’t write at all; and they keep on writing all the cliches and bromides and 1890 plots, and poems about Spring and poems about Love, and poems they think are modern because they are done in slang or staccato style, or written with all the ‚i’s‘ small.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

I read Plato’s ‚Republic.‘ I read it through about five times until I could actually understand it.

One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.

The average Hollywood film star’s ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

I searched for years I found no love. I’m sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.

We’re a blip in the existence of the universe, and we’re constantly trying to pull each other down. Not doing things to help each other.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

When we’re falling in love or out of it, that’s when we most need a song that says how we feel. Yeah, I write a lot of songs about boys. And I’m very happy to do that.

We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.

I have no hostility to nature, but a child’s love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

I married my best friend that happens to be a girl.

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

He didn’t come out of my belly, but my God, I’ve made his bones, because I’ve attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I’m so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

If you wished to be loved, love.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

Now that I’m a parent, I understand why my father was in a bad mood a lot.

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.

I’ve learned that we all change constantly. It’s rare to find that person who is growing with you in the same way at the same time, who encourages you to grow.

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

If you look at the movie ‚Belly,‘ I identify with Sincere the most. I am a gangster. I love my lady to death. I’m not in the game for the wrong reasons. I’m not in the game for the glory. I’m in the game to survive so the people that I love could be straight. I’m a highly intelligent individual.

‚Young Indiana Jones’ was one of the happiest times I ever had, so I love television.

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

I’ve been to those places where it’s ‚poor, pitiful me.‘