When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.

A woman can’t be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can’t do it by herself.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

We’re not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.

I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.

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

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

Life is a song to me.

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

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

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

Any man who doesn’t love his mama can’t be no friend of mine.

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can – that is their secret.

I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: ‚Oh my God, what a blessing.‘ Then you realise it’s important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.

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

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man’s life.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.

Few are drawn to the person whom others avoid and neglect; people gather around those who have already attracted interest.

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

People like to hear the word ‚love.‘

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open.

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.

When you really don’t like a guy, they’re all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they’re no longer interested.

Don’t tell your problems to people: eighty percent don’t care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

There was a girl knocking on my hotel room door all night! Finally, I let her out.

To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn’t be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

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.

I’d love to date somebody cool, fun, funny.

Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.

You are the universe, you aren’t in the universe.

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?

I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.

I’m working at trying to be a Christian, and that’s serious business. It’s like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy – it’s serious business.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

You’re unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

I really don’t pay attention to the outside world when I’m incarcerated, because being in prison is like being in a different world. So I don’t pay attention to what’s going on outside of jail, because it’s all beyond my control.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.