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

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

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.

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

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

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.

It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity.

To understand Europe, you have to be a genius – or French.

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

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

My wife doesn’t even want to spend 2 hours with me.

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

What good am I? I can’t have kids. I can’t cook. I’ve been divorced three times. Who would want me?

The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

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

I know love is the answer.

The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.

In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don’t baptize the children of single mothers because they weren’t conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today’s hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

It always seems odd to me that the fundamental laws of physics, when discovered, can appear in so many different forms that are not apparently identical at first, but, with a little mathematical fiddling, you can show the relationship.

I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.

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.

The more I grow in popularity, the lonelier it gets. Because you don’t really know me. You just know this part of me. You fell in love with that. But it’s way more intricate than what meets the surface.

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.

This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Don’t get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.

In order to have friends, you must first be one.

The Americans at heart are a pure and noble people; things to them are in black and white. It’s either ‚rawk‘ or it’s not. We Brits putter around in the grey area.

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

I’m not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.

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.

For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

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.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

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?

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

My mother never made me do anything for my brothers, like serve them. I think that’s an important lesson, especially for the Latino culture, because the women are expected to be the ones that serve and cook and whatever. Not in our family. Everybody was equal.

She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.

Men walk this tightrope where any sign of weakness illicits shame, and so they’re afraid to make themselves vulnerable for fear of looking weak.

I have a very good family. I’m very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It’s one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it’s to have any meaning in this world – and stop being its apologist.

If you’re talking to a man who wouldn’t fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you’re talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.

I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it’s my mind.

‚The Story of Us‘ is about running into someone I had been in a relationship with at an awards show, and we were seated a few seats away from each other. I just wanted to say to him, ‚Is this killing you? Because it’s killing me.‘ But I didn’t. Because I couldn’t. Because we both had these silent shields up.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

Do not rebuke mockers, or they will hate you; rebuke the wise, and they will love you.

I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it’s almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.

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

Every single one of the guys that I’ve written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.

I think any man who lets a woman pick what he should wear… I mean, you gotta draw the line somewhere as a man. I see these guys, ‚My wife told me to wear this!‘ And I just shake my head.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.