Mandy Patinkin Quotes

Life is about relationships, not transactions.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

The real business of life is trying to understand each other.

I am not a perfect friend, and it is impossible not to rebuff or be rebuffed if you move about the world.

In romance, we feel the need to zoom in and expound on our partner's foibles in intimate detail; in friendship, we tend to do the opposite, avoiding confrontation through fear, lethargy or both.

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

Well I think if you really go out with someone for quite a long time you do get to know each other very, very well, you go through the good times, you go through the bad times. You know both personally, but also within a relationship as well.

It is my goal to learn as much about the people I'm surrounded by. I am slowly widening who I am close with, and at the same time, growing further away from others.

I really love people. I love to meet people. I'm curious about people.

Our relationships are precious, valuable treasures from heaven, and we should handle them carefully, always looking for ways to build bridges to each other's hearts.

I knew I could write infinitely about relationships. That's the most beautiful, most confusing, most rewarding, most heartbreaking thing in our lives - and not just romantic relationships: that's all relationships.

Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.

In the graver and more sentimental communication of man and man, the head still bears the superior sway; in the unreserved intimacies of man and woman, the heart is ever uppermost. Feeling is the main thing, and judgment passes for little.

I think that our view of love and family informs our work, the way we empathize with people.

I think that the most important thing we have is our ability communicate and love other humans.

That's what this game is about; it's about relationships.

A lot of 'Time' was actually about a friend's relationship and me seeing what she went through and how she felt.

Friendship requires great communication.

I want to talk to him. I want to ask him about that girl and if he loved her and still misses her. Nothing, however, exits my mouth. How well do we really let ourselves know each other? There's a long quietness until I finally break it open. It reminds me of someone breaking bread and handing it out. In my case, I hand out a question to my friend.

Because everything of value that we will know in this life comes from our relationships with those around us. Because there is nothing material that measures against the intangibles of love and friendship.

One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love.

We're all amateurs when it comes to love. Don't be too hard on each other.

It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.

I think, when you get to know somebody on a personal level were you truly understand what makes them tick, what they play for, things they like to do in their spare time, you're around their families, I think you're kind of able to kind of coexist more when you have a relationship.