When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that’s when I think life is over.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we’re blood.

I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

There is no wealth but life.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

Most of our lives aren’t that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

I’m not trying to follow a set of rules and stuff. I’m just living my life.

Really, who you are is defined by the people who you know – not even the people that you know, but the people you spend time with and the people that you love and the people that you work with. I guess we show your friends in your profile, but that’s kind of different from the information you put in your profile.

I will never be happy without having someone. Going to sleep alone kills me.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

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.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

I’m not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I’m the girl who rarely has a boyfriend.

At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

Change alone is unchanging.

It’s always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you’re seeing the most beautiful thing on God’s Earth.

I’ve never dropped anyone I believed in.

The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

Lovers often invest their first meetings with retrospective significance, as if to try to conjure the elements of the numinous out of the stubborn witness of the everyday.

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.

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.

I think every entertainer’s had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can’t remember everything all the time, and especially if you’re having hard times personally, things going on that you – you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse.

Love is only one of many passions.

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

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Assuming if there’s such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?

It’s not just a matter of whether you support Obama or Romney. It’s who they have coming with them. I always keep my powder dry, as they say in the military.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

I’m perpetually lonely.

I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it’s my mind.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

People like to hear the word ‚love.‘

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

President Assad, I worked with. I know him reasonably well, met with him a few times, and he’s a liar.

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

One may have a blazing hearth in one’s soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.

There are no rules when it comes to love.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one’s soul.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

My life is real.

All the time, I’ve felt that life is a wager and that I probably was getting more out of leading a bohemian existence as a writer than I would have if I didn’t.

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

I’m grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to.