I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

Even in high school I was very interested in history – why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.

It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend’s folly.

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

When I was on TV in the ’80s, I wasn’t thinking, ‚There’s a 10-year-old kid watching this and in 15 years, he’s gonna be doing stuff that was influenced by me.‘ I was trying to get my five minutes together. So now that those people are comedians and they’re influenced by me – it’s bizarre.

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.

I’m not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.

Sometimes I’ve been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

I used to really love Fiend, but he stopped. He just stopped. Every time he had a project, every project – ‚There’s One In Every Family,‘ ‚Street Life‘ – I had to have them. And he just stopped. And that was disappointing, ‚cause that was my favorite rapper at one time.

I’ve never been a boyfriend kind of girl.

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.

The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

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

I can’t deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you.

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

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

If I’m gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That’s how it works.

Understanding is a two-way street.

The future of American film lies on television.

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

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

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

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

You can’t imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.

The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it’s not going to happen. I’m fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.

Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.

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.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years.

All that the future holds in store for each sacred child of God will be shaped by his or her parents, family, friends, and teachers. Thus, our faith now becomes part of our posterity’s faith later.

I’ve been around longer than most of my fans have been alive.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

I have this old ’57 Porsche Speedster, and the way the door closes, I’ll just sit there and listen to the sound of the latch going, ‚cluh-CLICK-click.‘ That door! I live for that door. Whatever the opposite of planned obsolescence is, that’s what I’m into.

I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.

We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.

It’s annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren’t they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

I can’t go out with a Republican.

I think any man who lets a woman pick what he should wear… I mean, you gotta draw the line somewhere as a man. I see these guys, ‚My wife told me to wear this!‘ And I just shake my head.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

It’s hard for anybody who’s been with me not to feel starved for affection when I’m making love to my ideas. Maybe it’s not meant for me to settle down and be married.

Ranking among the greatest Christmas movie classics, ‚It’s a Wonderful Life‘ tells a beautiful story about the priceless value of relationships.

If I think too hard about a relationship, I’ll talk myself out of it.

My wife and I don’t compete. We know each other’s preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That’s what friends do.

My business is to prevent the future.

It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

I’m a girls‘ girl. I have guy friends, but the problem with having guy friends is, like, I always get linked to them, and they’ll end up in a slideshow of people I’ve apparently dated on the Internet.

You don’t sign up for a divorce when you get married. It’s very painful. But it’s taught me a great deal about myself.

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.