Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.

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.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

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

I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.

All you need is love.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

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

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Sometimes you can’t prioritise family and you feel guilty.

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.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

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

To get a hold on boys you must be their friend.

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

I can’t deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you.

I can’t go out with a Republican.

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

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

A family shares hardships and a connected history.

He who hath many friends hath none.

You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

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.

It has been hard for me to find it, but I have found love.

It’s probably the worst feeling in the world, when you’re deeply and madly in love with a woman and you know she’s not feeling you the same way, and you don’t know why.

Every man’s reputation proceeds from those of his own household.

I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it’s absolutely true.

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.

There’s only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I’ll get married again.

All men hate the nagging.

Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?

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

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

If you wished to be loved, love.

We’re so immaturely cynical as a culture. We’re not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they’re stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

I mean, families are weird.

I’ve got a crush on my backing singer.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

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.

My fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids‘ reaction to that divorce.

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

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

I know love is the answer.

I’m just a friendly person; that runs in my family.

People were saying that David Geffen and I had gotten married and it just blew me away. Not that they thought I was gay, but that they thought I could land a guy that hot.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

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.

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

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.