I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals.

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.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.

God always takes the simplest way.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

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.

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

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.

The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure – the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess.

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

Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.

If you talk bad about country music, it’s like saying bad things about my momma. Them’s fightin‘ words.

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

To you I’m an atheist; to God, I’m the Loyal Opposition.

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.

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

All mankind love a lover.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

So far as I am concerned, I could not be accused of having set eyes, or having wished to set eyes, upon Darius‘ wife: on the contrary, I have refused even to listen to those who spoke to me of her beauty.

When we trust God more than our feelings, it confuses the devil. I mean, when he throws you his best shot and he can’t budge you from believing God, he won’t know what to do with you anymore.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

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 met my husband before I became a star, and he doesn’t care about any of it.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

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

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

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.

God just has a way of working things out the way he wants to and you have no say in that.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.

I think I have had so much blessing – I’ve had my brother, who was brilliant – I think my family came closest to making a genius when they made my brother – Bailey was just all of that. He loved me.

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

I don’t know what’s better gettin‘ laid or gettin‘ paid.

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.

I’ve never been a boyfriend kind of girl.

I think that you can love people without it being the great love.

I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will.

There are three faithful friends – an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

I don’t think there’s an option for me to fall in love slowly or at medium speed. I either do, or I don’t.

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o‘ the flatterer.

I’m working at trying to be a Christian, and that’s serious business. It’s like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy – it’s serious business.

A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.

I purposely don’t talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But I do say that I want you to be blessed. To me, prosperity is having health, having great children, having peace, good relationships. It’s not about the money.

Love is the one wild card.

I think I have to trust that you end up with the person you’re supposed to end up with, and that everything in between is there to teach you stuff.

I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.

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

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

It’s not a faith in technology. It’s faith in people.