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.

There’s only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I’ll get married again.

It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.

We’re the only animal that wakes up and doesn’t stretch.

Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.

Men who think that a woman’s past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.

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.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

When I get married, it’ll be no secret.

Some mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

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!

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can – that is their secret.

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

In one day, I have times where I’m feeling great, I feel like I love my life, and then 2:30 rolls around and I’m the angriest man alive. My wife sees it.

The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.

We judge people in areas where we’re vulnerable to shame, especially picking folks who are doing worse than we’re doing.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I’m not leading them to some false God or something like that.

The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.

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.

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

Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.

They do not love that do not show their love.

People love conspiracy theories.

Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.

A friend is nothing but a known enemy.

In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death… these are things that unite us all.

I don’t want to get into it, but if you know someone, it doesn’t mean you agree with everything they say or they do.

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people’s kids than I did my own.

What the mind doesn’t understand, it worships or fears.

The thing that will never go away is that connection you make with a band or a song where you’re moved by the fact that it’s real people making music. You make that human connection with a song like ‚Let It Be‘ or ‚Long and Winding Road‘ or a song like ‚Bohemian Rhapsody‘ or ‚Roxanne,‘ any of those songs. They sound like people making music.

If you’re performing music that is not who you are or where you’re at, it is painful. It’s painful for the performer and for the audience.

I haven’t had that one great love, which is good. I don’t want that to be in the past – I want it to be in the future.

My message isn’t perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

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

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

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

In any court-like environment of power, you will inevitably find people who are drawn to those who are successful or powerful, not out of admiration, but out of secret envy.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

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

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

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.

I’ve done the bad-boy thing. It was fun for a good three months. But the thing about bad boys is, you have to keep in mind, you’re never gonna marry a bad boy.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

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

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.

I make decisions all day, so it’s nice for a woman like me to go to dinner and have the man take the menu and say, ‚Let me order.‘ Other women would be offended by that, but I’m like, ‚Good. Because I can’t make one more decision today.‘ I want someone to rub my feet without being asked.

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

I make friends faster and easier than journalists.