If you get down and quarell everyday, you’re saying prayers to the devil, I say.

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

There are always people always asking you for something. But I feel like I have a foundation. I have a supporting cast where it doesn’t bother me too much.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

Country radio is much more like a family than any other group of people that I’ve met.

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

Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes… can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

I feel like I’m the kind of guy that would have kids before getting married. The first thing would be kids.

I have an urge to communicate. I think I’m a change from what it would be like dating a normal guy who doesn’t talk too much.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‚understand‘ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

I would be married, but I’d have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

I never fall in love.

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

It isn’t necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.

Ranking among the greatest Christmas movie classics, ‚It’s a Wonderful Life‘ tells a beautiful story about the priceless value of relationships.

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

He knows my limitations and where I’m a good wife and a good mom.

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I’m not leading them to some false God or something like that.

The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we’ll fail, and sometimes we’ll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you’ll find support.

A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.

The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.

Generally, the view that I’ve had on Twitter is if you’re on Twitter, you’re in, like, the meme – you’re in meme war land. If you’re on Twitter, you’re in the arena. And so, essentially, if you attack me, it is therefore OK for me to attack back.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

I don’t eat with beautiful women alone.

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another – until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I’ve never been in love before – I don’t really know? I think I have. I guess it’s subjective in that way.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger.

Both times I was in India, I could not get people to listen to each other. I had to literally tell people to listen to each other and tell them that they can’t get creative and find alternate solutions if they don’t listen to each other. There’s a lot of arguing and justifying.

There are no rules when it comes to love.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

I had no bad moment in my relationship with Dortmund. Not one second.

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.

In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged.

Be nice to your children. After all, they are going to choose your nursing home.

You know what, I’m very attracted to someone who makes me laugh and is that charming. Really, I could be charmed by anyone. I’m just a sucker for somebody that is charming.

My wife thinks she’s better than me at puzzles. I haven’t given in on that one yet.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone’s inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.

I don’t have time to be lonely. And I get fearful of relationships because I feel guilty about wanting someone to be completely faithful and loyal, when I can’t even give them 10 percent of the attention that they need. It’s just the reality of my time, my life, my schedule.

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow’s viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

I’m the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that’s horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it.

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.