When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

Understanding is a two-way street.

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

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

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, ‚Did you sleep good?‘ I said ‚No, I made a few mistakes.‘

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

What’s really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.

The only defensible war is a war of defense.

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another – until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

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

We make war that we may live in peace.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

All mankind love a lover.

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

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Example is leadership.

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.

In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

You can’t forgive without loving. And I don’t mean sentimentality. I don’t mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, ‚I forgive. I’m finished with it.‘

A friend in power is a friend lost.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Love is only one of many passions.

I think everyone should be with who they love.

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

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

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

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?

Love can do much, but duty more.

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

To be loved is very demoralizing.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.

Basically my wife was immature. I’d be at home in the bath and she’d come in and sink my boats.

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.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.

When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

Every single one of the guys that I’ve written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.

For many of the world’s conflicts, it is difficult even to conjure up a feasible settlement.

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

Crankiness is at the essence of all comedy. My wife and I were discussing the different types of cranky. There’s entertaining cranky, annoying cranky, angry cranky.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.