Socrates

We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue-to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak.

Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.

An honest man is always a child.

No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.

A friend is a second self.

If I was your wife Sir, I’d poison you! Madam, if you were my wife, I’d let you!

I only f**k with people who are secure enough to be happy for me and hype me up. I don’t want any ‘friends’ who fall silent during my success.

Dear Ladies: You should never need to prove to other women that he’s in love with you. That’s his job.

No one has done a study on this, as far as I can tell, but I think Facebook might be the first place where a large number of people have come out. We didn’t create that – society was generally ready for that. I think this is just part of the general trend that we talked about, about society being more open, and I think that’s good.

I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough.

I can replace things, but I could never replace my wife and kids.

If I’m not interested in a woman, I’m straight-forward. Right after sex, I usually say, ‘I can’t do this anymore. Thanks for coming over!’

Good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt.

The only other person who has a clue about what this is, the good, the bad, is your partner.

Certain guys tell me they want women of substance, not beautiful models. It just means they can’t get beautiful models.

When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy-that it is builded upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

I probably didn’t handle things as diplomatically as I should.

Relationships don’t thrive because the guilty are punished, but because the wounded are merciful.

[On hooking up romantically with co-stars] It’s understandable. You’re in situations with an actress where you’re supposed to be intimate, physical, and vulnerable with each other, and sometimes feelings get crossed. It’s like you’re away at summer camp and it seems to make sense, but when you go back home, the reality is that it may not be a situation you want to be in.