Leo Tolstoy

It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.

She had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he was here to be where she was.

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.

All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.

I often think that men don’t understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.

My dad used to say, ‘You wouldn’t worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.

I do not believe in mixing of the races. You can quote me. I don’t believe in it, and I never have. I’ve never changed. I’ve never changed my hair. I’ve never changed my color, I have always been proud of myself, and my fans are proud of me for remaining the way I’ve always been. I married a white man one time, but he was a creep.

I think you have different soul mates throughout your life, that your soul needs different things at different times.

Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.

I never talk about my wife: we’re both in public professions but we try to keep our private life private.

Women talk about stuff on the way to the valet that it takes men 10 years to admit to each other. The depth at which women talk to and about each other is invaluable to me. With your really, really close good friends you do that fast.

I don’t understand how in my parents’ age, it was ’til death do us part, and in mine it’s ’til cheating do us part, ’til lying do us part, ’til chemistry do us part, ’til disagreements do us part, ’til boredom do us part, ’til cowardice do us part. I just want what my parents have, that part.

Friendship, ‘the wine of life,’ said Boswell, should, like a well-stocked cellar, be thus continually renewed. And Dr. Johnson added to this A man, Sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.

Usually I’m on top to keep the guy from escaping.

The only time a woman has a true orgasm is when she’s shopping.

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

Sometimes if you’re lucky, someone comes into your life who’ll take up a place in your heart that no one else can fill, someone who’s tighter than a twin, more with you than your own shadow, who gets deeper under your skin than your own blood and bones

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

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.