When people say ‚marriage‘ to me… It’s always a means to an end. Everyone’s so in a rush to define the relationship.

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.

If someone lies, well, you had a choice to trust that person or not. I think the way my father raised me, well, he trusted everybody. And that worked for him.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.

A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

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

Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.

Love is the one wild card.

I always wanted to be loved.

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

Love is only one of many passions.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

My mother and my father have been married 50 years, and he’s just started to understand that something’s wrong with the system. He accepted the whole thing, you see. Yet this industrious kind of engagement didn’t bring him the success, according to American terms, that he wanted. I was probably affected by this very much. In fact, I know I was.

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.

If you wished to be loved, love.

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there’s too much fraternizing with the enemy.

Sooner or later we’re all someone’s dog.

It’s very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

I never fall in love.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

I have an immense amount of respect for acting. I’ve always loved movies and was always fascinated by movie-making. But to become an actor, I wanted to commit myself.

There are no rules when it comes to love.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

Familiarity breeds contempt – and children.

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

I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can’t be locked up with anyone for too long.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

As I get older, I tend to put more into family than I used to.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.

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

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.

You gotta understand: I believe a woman should praise the man, the king. If you holding it down for your woman, I feel like the woman should praise. And the man should praise the queen.

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people’s happiness.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

A family looks for ways to support and inspire one another.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

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.

Ranking among the greatest Christmas movie classics, ‚It’s a Wonderful Life‘ tells a beautiful story about the priceless value of relationships.

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.

If you gonna wear the mohawk, you stick with it. You don’t just be dibby-dabbing. You make up your mind.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

When you’re one of the leaders of the team, there are no days off.

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.