What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.

I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

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.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

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

I’ve had no contact with my daughter for years. That’s her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don’t want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.

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.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

When I say I’m going to take care of a woman, I don’t just mean physically or sexually or romantically. I’m going to take care of her emotionally and spiritually. I’m going to take care of her in all ways. I take a lot of pride in that today.

I worked with someone who told me they’d never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.

I wasn’t going to shy away from getting married when I did and having a baby young and starting a family, even with the job that I chose.

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

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today – and in fact we have forgotten.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Being a good husband is like being a good stand-up comic – you need ten years before you can even call yourself a beginner.

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

I’ve missed out on a lot of things, going out with friends.

The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

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.

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.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

My father wasn’t a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher – one of those Victorians, hard as iron – but my dad was tough enough.

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it’s cool that happens.

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.

My friends are my estate.

To summarize, draft resistance can make use of the inegalitarian nature of American society as a technique for increasing the cost of American aggression, and it threatens values that are important to those in a decision-making position.

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.

My mother always taught us that if people don’t agree with you, the important thing is to listen to them. But if you’ve listened to them carefully and you still think that you’re right, then you must have the courage of your convictions.

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

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.

I disagree with any policy that would turn America’s back on people who are fleeing harm. I frankly believe that it is contrary to everything that we have symbolically and actually said we stand for.

Disagreement is something normal.

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

I know love is the answer.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don’t mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That’s not power. That’s just corruption.

Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

Here’s what I’ve learned about deal-breakers. If you have enough natural chemistry with someone, you overlook every single thing that you said would break the deal.

A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.

There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving – by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.