You can’t have a relationship with a device whose limits are unknown to you, because without limits, it keeps becoming something else.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.

As the father of eight children, I’m quite convinced that each individual arrives here with their own unique personality. We are intended here from an invisible held of infinite potentiality. That which has no form, has no boundaries – it’s the I that’s in the ever-changing body.

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

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

If I’m gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That’s how it works.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

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

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

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

I feel like I’m changing pop culture.

Time is something that interests me a whole lot – past and present, and how the past appears as people change.

Sometimes what works 40 years ago doesn’t work today.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

We’re not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.

A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend – and he’s a priest.

I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don’t know if it’s possible forever and ever.

Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things.

Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

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

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!

We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.

The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.

We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother – but… when she became our child, the affection came.

Men who think that a woman’s past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related.

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like – that’s a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.

All mankind love a lover.

You cannot mix sports with politics.

Mostly, my flying has been solo, but the preparation for it wasn’t. Without my husband’s help and encouragement, I could not have attempted what I have. Ours has been a contented and reasonable partnership, he with his solo jobs and I with mine. But always with work and play together, conducted under a satisfactory system of dual control.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

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.

I’ve been careful in love. I’ve been careless in love. And I’ve had adventures I wouldn’t trade for anything.

There’s nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It’s a thing no married man knows anything about.

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.