You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.

It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

You can draw inspiration from anything. If you’re a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you’re casually talking to says something that makes you so mad – you can create an entire scenario around that.

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing – hopefully.

Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it’s about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that all science is a tool, and we use our tools not to actualise what we know, but to implement how we feel.

If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.

I hate smiling. It makes me feel weak and powerless and small. I’ve always been like that; I don’t smile in any pictures.

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion – towards ourselves and towards all living beings.

My audience went, ‚Wait, why is she singing jazz? What’s going on?‘ And then they went, ‚Oh, because she can. Because she loves it.‘ And jazz, a music invented by the African-American community, is the greatest art form, I believe, to have ever come out of this country.

When I think of the love I feel for each member of our family, I sense, to a slight degree, the love that our Heavenly Father bears for His children.

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

If you look at the movie ‚Belly,‘ I identify with Sincere the most. I am a gangster. I love my lady to death. I’m not in the game for the wrong reasons. I’m not in the game for the glory. I’m in the game to survive so the people that I love could be straight. I’m a highly intelligent individual.

Actually, you have to be a little bit in love with your leading man and vice versa. If you’re going to portray love, you have to feel it. You can’t do it any other way. But you don’t carry it beyond the set.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

After all, life hasn’t much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I’m writing about New York.

I’ve done a lot of things I’m not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that.

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

‚Harry Potter‘ gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.

We all get weary sometimes, and we tend to think that life is what makes us weary.

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

Charlotte Bronte was writing about sex. I supposed Jane Austen was, too. Where do you get a hero like Darcy unless you are writing about sex?

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.

Just talk to me as a father – not what the Constitution says. What do you feel?

Sometimes, you might meet somebody that you love that’s turning into a ‚they.‘ My key is invite them to Miami and take them to the ocean and let them jump off the boat in the ocean, on the sand bar, and cleanse off and pray and then go take a shower, and hopefully the ‚they‘ is out of you.

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?

Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

The only big things I’ve purchased are my dad’s heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.

I don’t keep people around me that aren’t family. You don’t get to stay. Unless you’re eating at the table with us, you’re not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.

If your mom cries a lot, you probably cry a lot. It’s what you learn.

It is necessary to fall in love… if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don’t mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That’s not power. That’s just corruption.

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

I always wanted to be loved.

I’m an emotional person.

You are Mrs. Reagan because Mr. Reagan loves you with all his heart.

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn’t they’d be married too.

Whether a person is straight or gay, Republican, Democrat, good person, not a good person, they’re all welcome, because to me, church is a place you’re supposed to get healed and whole and loved.

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I’m angry about bankers. About the government.

Funny is the world I live in. You’re funny, I’m interested. You’re not funny, I’m not interested.

‚The Story of Us‘ is about running into someone I had been in a relationship with at an awards show, and we were seated a few seats away from each other. I just wanted to say to him, ‚Is this killing you? Because it’s killing me.‘ But I didn’t. Because I couldn’t. Because we both had these silent shields up.

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.