Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

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.

The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

There is no such thing as a lovers‘ oath.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

A friend doesn’t go on a diet because you are fat.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

Hillary Clinton will always be there for you. And just remember – there’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other.

Anxiety and spiritual searching have been consistent themes with me, and that figures into my worldview. But I tend to make my songs sound like relationship songs.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

You can’t be in love with a Google search.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

If I inspire you, pay for it, period.

If women were particular about men’s characters, they would never get married at all.

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you – gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

Only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.

Rose Adams is a wonderful Christian woman who cared for my mother, Morrow Coffey Graham, in her last years of life.

My fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids‘ reaction to that divorce.

Friend, there’s no greater investment in life than in being a people builder. Relationships are more important than our accomplishments.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

Basically my wife was immature. I’d be at home in the bath and she’d come in and sink my boats.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

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

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we’re even alive at all.

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

I knew through the surgeries that he was on my side and that this wasn’t something where I was gonna feel less of a woman, because my husband wasn’t gonna let that happen.

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

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

I don’t like to beat people down. They need to be lifted up.

We all die, we all get sick, we all feel hunger and lust and pain, and therefore human life is consistent from one generation to the other. We all – most of us, anyway – want connections with other people and spend our lives looking for them.

Often people become our friend or follower with an undercurrent of resentment in our having more success than they have. They secretly desire the opportunity to take us down a notch; they have a nose for any misstep on our part they can exploit.

Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

Animals are my friends… and I don’t eat my friends.

The relationship to one’s fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one’s striving.

When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own.

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.

My dad was never married. He was kind of a rolling stone. But he was never disrespectful. At the same time, even though he had women in his life when I was a kid, there wasn’t any consistency.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

It’s very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.

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

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

A youth, when at home, should be filial and, abroad, respectful to his elders. He should be earnest and truthful. He should overflow in love to all and cultivate the friendship of the good. When he has time and opportunity, after the performance of these things, he should employ them in polite studies.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

When your mother asks, ‚Do you want a piece of advice?‘ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.