We’re hardwired for connection. There’s no arguing with the bioscience. But we can want it so badly we’re trying to hot-wire it.

Hatred is settled anger.

Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.

The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film – whether it’s history, psychology, economics, or architecture – so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn’t going to help you unless you have something to say.

If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it’s cool that happens.

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

They do not love that do not show their love.

Love can do much, but duty more.

I think that you can love people without it being the great love.

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

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

You entertain people who are satisfied. Hungry people can’t be entertained – or people who are afraid. You can’t entertain a man who has no food.

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.

Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.

A man’s delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

You can’t trust very many people.

In the normal flow of a conversation, our attention is divided. We hear parts of what other people are saying, in order to follow and keep the conversation going. At the same time, we’re planning what we’ll say next, some exciting story of our own.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn’t be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.

I am two with nature.

I am a bit of a solitude person – a solitary personality. I like being on my own. I don’t have any major friendships or relationships with people.

In the real world, children love me.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

I always wanted a family.

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

My connection with Brazil is so abstract. My blood and my way of thinking is Brazilian, but that’s it. I don’t tend to go back to the past, and although I have an apartment there, I rarely visit. When I move, I really move.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

I’ve found that men I’ve dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I’ve found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren’t competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been… challenging.

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.

I don’t really know that much about love, it turns out.

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

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

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

Sucking up to the biggies won’t get us anywhere.

Love always ends differently and it always begins differently – especially with me.

The ultimate connection is when you are connected to the creator of the universe.

I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

I’m not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I’m the girl who rarely has a boyfriend.

Friends accept you the way you are.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

It’s fun to be hopelessly in love. It’s dangerous, but it’s fun.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

What women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.

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

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

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

House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad.

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don’t know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

Any man who doesn’t love his mama can’t be no friend of mine.

One of the things I’ve told men over and over and over and over is if you’re being rejected by all the women that you approach, it’s not the women!

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.