Socrates

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

What a lot of things there are a man can do without.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

All happy families are alike, but an unhappy family is unhappy after its own fashion.

When you get married, your loyalty, first and foremost, is to your spouse, and to the family that you create together.

[a metaphor for the end of her marriage] The process of divorce is about loading a blanket, throwing it up, watching it all spin, and worrying what stuff will break when it lands.

Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.

You know, it’s possible for two humans to be in a relationship without there needing to be some public reason for that relationship.

She was not for everyone, but she was for me.

Don’t base a relationship on sex. You need love, compassion and caring. Then sex can be a reflection of that.

Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

[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.

Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.

True friends stab you in the front.

A friend is a second self.

Breakups are a horrible thing for almost everybody I know. For someone who is a love addict, it’s debilitating.

I have had young fascinations but never love.

All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me – consciously or unconsciously. That’s to be expected.