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

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

When you’re traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonically, lyrically, visually. Conversations with women with different accents and stories told in those accents. I like to create characters based on different people I’ve met, and relationships. I like to tell stories loosely based on real-life events.

Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.

At the beginning when the child is coming, people worry the child may be deformed. When a healthy boy or child comes, people are very happy for a short moment.

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

What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of ‚CSI‘ and ‚Grey’s Anatomy‘ episodes with pints of ice cream.

I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don’t know if it’s possible forever and ever.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Ever since I dated a woman, I know what it is to grab a curve on a woman’s body. Skinny’s not fine when the lights are low.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

I’ve never had a divorce, but I’ve seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can’t write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I’m able to kind of express it, or their joy.

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

If you like a person you say ‚let’s go into business together.‘ Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.

You know what, I’m very attracted to someone who makes me laugh and is that charming. Really, I could be charmed by anyone. I’m just a sucker for somebody that is charming.

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

You can draw inspiration from anything. If you’re a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you’re casually talking to says something that makes you so mad – you can create an entire scenario around that.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they’ll send you the nicest clothes. Nothing better than walking into your dad’s restaurant and seeing a smile on his face and knowing that your mom and dad and your sister are real proud of you.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.

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.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

I’m more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

To be loved is very demoralizing.

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

Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Wives are people who feel they don’t dance enough.

It is fun to be in the same decade with you.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

I don’t like people going behind my back.

I think happiness is a goal all of us can agree on. Let’s face it – we all would like to be happy.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Start your diet during a period of optimism and happiness.

The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.

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

I spend a lot of time just, you know, with my girlfriend and my dog. And I mean, we don’t have a lot of furniture in our house, so it’s really simple. And we’re trying to build products for everyone in the world, right. And you don’t want to get isolated to do that.

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.

Assuming if there’s such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?

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.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

I want someone who can trust that my big hands are going to take care of them.

I’m a human being and I fall in love and sometimes I don’t have control of every situation.

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

There are no rules when it comes to love.

Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.

One of the most terrible feelings in the world is knowing that someone else doesn’t like you. Especially when you don’t know what you’ve done to deserve it.

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you’re making a mistake but let you go on with it, that’s when it ruins your mind state as an artist.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we’re going to be miserable. In fact, many times we believe it’s our problems that are making us unhappy when, in reality, it’s because we’re focused on ourselves!

What’s real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.