When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that’s when I think life is over.

We’re so immaturely cynical as a culture. We’re not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they’re stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another.

Women may fall when there’s no strength in men.

A man’s only as old as the woman he feels.

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

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death’s the other.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.

She’s been married so many times she has rice marks on her face.

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

The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.

I’m here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn’t make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply.

You learn that there’s no right way to do it, no wrong way to do it. It’s just what you feel comfortable with, to trust that, and don’t let anybody box you in to a certain style of parenting or make you feel a certain way about what your kids do.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering – an image of death.

I know love is the answer.

It’s true that I’ve never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.

Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

I thought I would try to be gay for a while, but I’m just more sexually attracted to women. But I’m really glad that I found a few gay friends, because it totally saved me from becoming a monk or something.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

When I was married, I definitely went through a lying period.

I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.

Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That’s not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that’s what life needs to be – and that if it’s not that, it’s all screwed up. It’s not.

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

I think any life can be interesting, any surroundings can be interesting. I don’t think I could have been so brave if I had been living in a town, competing with people on what can be called a generally higher cultural level.

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

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

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

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.‘

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

I heard that when Christina Aguilera went back to her prom, people, like, booed her. I can’t imagine going through that. If you know that’s going to happen, why put yourself in that situation? I’d rather play for 20,000 screaming people, you know?

Politics doesn’t make strange bedfellows – marriage does.

I have an urge to communicate. I think I’m a change from what it would be like dating a normal guy who doesn’t talk too much.

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.

All of the people in my life whom I consider to be close friends or colleagues are good thinkers.

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

I am alone; I am always alone no matter what.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

The outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has been impressive.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

I thank God I’m myself and for the life I’m given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.