In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that’s called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.

I’m not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.

I think we all change each other’s paths. I don’t know which law idea that is in physics, but I don’t think any of us can live without affecting one another.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

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

Really, who you are is defined by the people who you know – not even the people that you know, but the people you spend time with and the people that you love and the people that you work with. I guess we show your friends in your profile, but that’s kind of different from the information you put in your profile.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

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.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.

No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.

I love to flirt, and I’ve never met a man I didn’t like.

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

I’m sick of the tabloids‘ saying I obsess over guys. Why would you obsess over guys? They don’t like it.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

Have you ever asked yourselves what you are going to do when you grow up? In all likelihood you will get married, and before you know where you are, you will be mothers and fathers; and you will then be tied to a job, or to the kitchen, in which you will gradually wither away. Is that all that your life is going to be?

I’m more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

My wife and I are very affectionate.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.

Fame may go by and – so long, I’ve had you.

He that has not got a wife is not yet a complete man.

Arthur Miller wouldn’t have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

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

You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don’t accept it, it’s their loss.

For me, one of the toughest things about Valentine’s Day is that it gets geared up as the day to profess your love. See, T-E-S-T – that’s a bad word that doesn’t go with L-O-V-E.

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

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

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.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that’s when I think life is over.

Who, being loved, is poor?

It was weird to be married; you kind of lose your identity. You’re suddenly somebody’s wife. And you’re like, ‚Oh, I’m half of a couple now. I’ve lost me.‘

Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

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 never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.

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.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

I searched for years I found no love. I’m sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.

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

The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken. More: You have ceded them power.

If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

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

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

I was never a boy magnet at school. There was always the girl all the guys liked and wanted to date, but it was never me.

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.