When you find a guy who is powerful, a big father figure, you latch onto him immediately.

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

I’ve seen my friends take someone back after they’ve cheated because they fit perfectly.

I’m just a friendly person; that runs in my family.

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there’s nothing really to talk about.

I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community.

Absolutely not. I have no problem with commitment. In fact, I love having someone in my life.

I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.

Mostly, my flying has been solo, but the preparation for it wasn’t. Without my husband’s help and encouragement, I could not have attempted what I have. Ours has been a contented and reasonable partnership, he with his solo jobs and I with mine. But always with work and play together, conducted under a satisfactory system of dual control.

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?

You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they’re not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don’t care about money, and that’s not my problem.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that’s not so bad; but New York City?

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.

If I wouldn’t have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.

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

I wouldn’t say that anyone in fashion is on my side. I don’t think there’s anyone on my side.

If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

I’ll tell you one thing, since I’m married, single people look absolutely ridiculous to me.

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it’s the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone’s talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false ‚intelligence‘ and selected ‚leaks.‘

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.

Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

Part of me feels you can’t say you were truly in love if it didn’t last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that’s when I’ll know it’s real – because it lasted.

Few are drawn to the person whom others avoid and neglect; people gather around those who have already attracted interest.

You pay a certain penalty for going your own way. A lot of people think you’re nuts, and you’re not as popular with girls as you should be.

Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

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.

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

No honest writer today can possibly avoid being influenced by Freud through his pioneering work into the Unconscious and by the influence of those discoveries on the scientific, philosophic, and artistic work of his contemporaries: but not, by any means, necessarily through Freud’s own writing.

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

Brad was a huge surprise to me. I think we were both the last two people who were looking for a relationship. I certainly wasn’t. I was quite content to be a single mom with Mad.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals.

It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

You can never really live anyone else’s life, not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

They do not love that do not show their love.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

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.

Only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

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

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

I met my husband before I became a star, and he doesn’t care about any of it.

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

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

I have kind of a funny relationship with movies. I don’t have to see the whole movie to get an impression of it or to let it have an influence on me.

Man’s enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

To be clear: we have fights and problems like any other couple.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.