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

When your mother asks, ‚Do you want a piece of advice?‘ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love – first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

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

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I’d sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn’t miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.

However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.

Doing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, because you feel so much pressure to do well that night. But I think everyone’s grown to accept that and so they give me my space at the show.

In my day, there were no vet video games.

Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.

Whenever something went wrong when I was young – if I had a pimple or if my hair broke – my mom would say, ‚Sister mine, I’m going to make you some soup.‘ And I really thought the soup would make my pimple go away or my hair stronger.

I just got to feel that whoever I marry has some real regard for me.

It always seems odd to me that the fundamental laws of physics, when discovered, can appear in so many different forms that are not apparently identical at first, but, with a little mathematical fiddling, you can show the relationship.

Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our mother or father would sit down beside us in the semi-dark and read from a book of fairy tales.

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.

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

If a man’s character is to be abused there’s nobody like a relative to do the business.

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

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

My husband is everything to me and without him it’s just not the same.

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?

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

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

Obviously, you go through a lot of emotional turmoil in a divorce.

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.

When the people you love are gone, you’re alone.

I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future.

The symbolism of the climate strike is that if you adults don’t give a damn about my future, I won’t either.

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

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.

My business is to prevent the future.

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

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.

Though lovers be lost, love shall not.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

I don’t listen to a lot of new stuff. I just like the old stuff. It’s all quite dramatic and atmospheric. You’d have an entire story in song. I never listen to, like, white music – I couldn’t sing you a Zeppelin or Floyd song.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.

Doo-wop is special music to me because it’s so straightforward and melody-driven and captures emotions.

If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it’s cool that happens.

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?

For me, when you are have people wondering what is next, what is coming out, you are on the right track.

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

Great loves too must be endured.