What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.

Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They’ll tell you.

If Jesus were here today, he wouldn’t be riding around on a donkey. He’d be taking a plane, he’d be using the media.

I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.

Every once in a while I get the highly inappropriate proposal which is like, ‚Wow, Really! You don’t even know me and I don’t know you at all, and you want that to happen? Tonight? Ok, I get off work at 7.30.‘

Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I’ve never been in love before – I don’t really know? I think I have. I guess it’s subjective in that way.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

He that has not got a wife is not yet a complete man.

Please don’t ask me to do that which I’ve just said I’m not going to do, because you’re burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.

That’s what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he’s wise.

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.

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend – and he’s a priest.

That’s another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it’s as if things were coming together in my mind. It’s like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it’s it’s like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Sometimes when you take strong stands, if you’re not called to do it, you’re dividing the audience you’re trying to reach.

You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together.

Encouragement to others is something everyone can give. Somebody needs what you have to give. It may not be your money; it may be your time. It may be your listening ear. It may be your arms to encourage. It may be your smile to uplift. Who knows?

Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

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.

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.

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‚If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?‘ But… the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‚If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?‘

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

I’ve never been a boyfriend kind of girl.

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

I don’t hate women – they just sometimes make me mad.

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.

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

Me is a common sense man. That mean when me explain things, me explain it in a very simple way; that mean if I explain it to a baby, the baby will understand too, you know.

I’ve always wanted male friends that I could be real intimate with and talk about important things with and be as affectionate with that person as I would be with a girl.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

I think if you follow anyone home, whether they live in Houston or London, and you sit at their dinner table and talk to them about their mother who has cancer or their child who is struggling in school, and their fears about watching their lives go by, I think we’re all the same.

Love is a state of being.

It’s so much easier to like people, and to let people in, to trust them until they prove that you should do otherwise. The alternative is being an iceberg.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.

Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

My mother always taught us that if people don’t agree with you, the important thing is to listen to them. But if you’ve listened to them carefully and you still think that you’re right, then you must have the courage of your convictions.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

My mother did not like children.

A speech idiosyncrasy, in the same way as an air quote, is really justifiable only if it’s employed very sparingly and if the user consciously intends to be using it.

The wisest hustler can suddenly fall for the worst tramp and lose all of his money on her. The hustler is aware of his own weaknesses and openings to con. This awareness is his edge.