Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don’t mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That’s not power. That’s just corruption.

My wife thinks she’s better than me at puzzles. I haven’t given in on that one yet.

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o‘ the flatterer.

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

Arthur Miller wouldn’t have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

I don’t really know that much about love, it turns out.

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

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

If we want to reduce poverty and misery, if we want to give to every deserving individual what is needed for a safe existence of an intelligent being, we want to provide more machinery, more power. Power is our mainstay, the primary source of our many-sided energies.

I believe when it comes to love, there’s something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don’t think I have a pattern.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

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

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.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

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

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

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

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.

It’s probably the worst feeling in the world, when you’re deeply and madly in love with a woman and you know she’s not feeling you the same way, and you don’t know why.

Friends are thieves of time.

For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.

In married life three is company and two none.

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

I don’t eat with beautiful women alone.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

Anywhere I go, there is always an incredible crowd that follows me. In Rome, as I land at the airport, even the men kiss me. I love Rome.

The people who hold that our culture is an oppressive patriarchy, they don’t want to admit that the current hierarchy might be predicated on competence.

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people’s lives.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

You can’t have a relationship with a device whose limits are unknown to you, because without limits, it keeps becoming something else.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

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.

There is no such thing as a lovers‘ oath.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.

My partner Donald Trump says that married couples should always have a prenuptial agreement. True, a prenuptial is important if one partner is much richer than the other before marriage, but Kim and I don’t have one.

Why do Jewish divorces cost so much? They’re worth it.

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.

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

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man’s intelligence and his comprehension… would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

Corruption is just another form of tyranny.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.

Is science of any value? I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries – for heavy ones they cannot.

When you have good friends you’ve been around, every time they talk, you don’t give them your full attention. You don’t look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you’re listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don’t know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

Be nice to your children. After all, they are going to choose your nursing home.