It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.

When I think of the love I feel for each member of our family, I sense, to a slight degree, the love that our Heavenly Father bears for His children.

I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.

He who hath many friends hath none.

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

The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

The difficulty with this conversation is that it’s very different from most of the ones I’ve had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds, they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.

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

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

I think it’s brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I’ve ever seen is called television – but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.

The fault lines are shifting from the boundaries of nations into the web of our societies and the streets of our cities. And, terrorism and extremism are a global force that are larger than their changing names, groups, territories and targets.

There was one incident at a movie theater where my girl got mad at these guys who were talking behind us. I never looked back there, but she was like, ‚Will you all just shut up!‘ And I just got up and moved three rows in front. She was like, ‚What are you doing?!‘ I was like, ‚You better get up here! I don’t play the fighting games.‘

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

Men exist for the sake of one another.

I have an answering machine in my car. It says, I’m home now. But leave a message and I’ll call when I’m out.

When I got somethin‘ to say, I’ll say it.

If I have the chance to say something, I will say it – but that doesn’t obligate me to always say something, or to shed light on every problem, as if I were a lawmaker.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one’s never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

Marriage is the most wonderful thing ever.

I wanted to only create a great perfume, not any perfume that would sell, but a great artistic one that the fans would not feel cheated by.

I change my mind a lot. I usually don’t agree with what I say very much. I’m an awful liar.

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

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

Ultimately, who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business.

A saint is tolerant and is attentive to the pleadings of other human beings, not only to spoken messages but to unspoken messages as well.

My life is real.

We never love a person, but only qualities.

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

Journalism largely consists of saying ‚Lord Jones is Dead‘ to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

People like music when they’re in love, but they don’t need it as much. You need music when you’re missing someone or you’re pining for someone or you’re forgetting someone or you’re trying to process what just happened.

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

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.

A person who is truly authentic doesn’t need to play a role in life, we think, but can simply be him – or herself.

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

If I’m inspired to make a certain kind of song, I’m going to make that kind of song, no matter if it’s what they know me as or think I am.

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

Be as you wish to seem.

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

Then, when I’m in these relationships with people who are also creative, or creative in their own way, what happens is the attraction is initially there and it’s all unicorns and rainbows. And then they hate me.

Hear reason, or she’ll make you feel her.

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.

I can’t pretend that I’m brave and that I can beat the whole world.

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

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

Every man should know, if you’re comfortable and you like it, you should do it. Everyone always worries about what the girls think, what the guys think. If you like it, do it.

We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.

The American public’s a lot more sophisticated than we all give them credit for. And on complicated issues, I’m going to give them straight answers. And if it takes more than three minutes, I’m going to do it.

I guess every single word I’ve ever said is going to be dissected now.

We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.