Martha Stewart Quotes

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

I'm not just Jimmy Walker the golfer. I have a lot of friends. I've got two little boys; I've got a great family. It's all stuff that's helped me become better.

The level of comfort that people feel with me has taken some getting used to.

Whatever distrust we may have of the sincerity of those who converse with us, we always believe they will tell us more truth than they do to others.

I don't know, the word 'famous' just sounds really weird to me, because I'm just me.

Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true intimacy.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

I like, though, that people have a hunger to connect with other people. They're desperate to know that you're not lying to them or misleading them.

I want to be a man who is truthful and who won't let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, 'Here I am. This is me.' I feel there's something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

When you're a politician, someone always wants something from you, so they're constantly telling you how smart or great you are, and that can warp people! Exercising humility is important to me. My friends back home treat me like the same person I was when I was waiting tables.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.

The directors you trust the most are the ones, when you ask them a question, they've got the guts to say, 'I don't know.'

I'm someone, the same as my girlfriends, when they say what do you think about this, I don't always say they look fabulous. I say what I think.

I'm not a journalist; I'm probably a horrible interviewer. The one small thing I have is I'm curious, and I'm interested in who I'm with.

I think Raymond is very honest about human relationships.

Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk.

Be willing to share all of who you are. So many of us want a partner, but we're not willing to show all of us.

I try to become more humble and more myself with every year. There was a while when I got famous where I was so confused and my head was spinning.

When I meet a new person, I am on the lookout for signs of what he or she is loyal to. It is a preliminary clue to the sense of belonging, and hence of his or her humanity.

I still see myself as young, the same guy I was before I ever won the Heisman. Hopefully my friends still feel I'm the same way. I just want people to know I'm still the same person I've always been.

Women love an honest man.

I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.

But you base everything on people you know.

I always think that if you know somebody's name then there's something slightly fraudulent about that person. Otherwise we wouldn't have heard of him or her.