I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.

I’ll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it’s disappointing.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner: ‚This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality.‘ Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

We all die, we all get sick, we all feel hunger and lust and pain, and therefore human life is consistent from one generation to the other. We all – most of us, anyway – want connections with other people and spend our lives looking for them.

If you wished to be loved, love.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

Keeping score is for games, not friendships.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

I like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.

The Bible is clear – God’s definition of marriage is between a man and a woman.

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

Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish.

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

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

I’m an idealist without illusions.

It’s annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren’t they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.

Great loves too must be endured.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.

All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

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

He who hath many friends hath none.

If I’m gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That’s how it works.

The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I’m willing to show you. In you, it’s courage and daring. In me, it’s weakness.

Dividers seek to make themselves look or feel better by making others feel worse. They damage relationships, fracture teams and organizations, and create havoc in people’s lives.

If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.

The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

Remember, it’s as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

Understanding is a two-way street.

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

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of ‚I know.‘ Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.

A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend – and he’s a priest.

I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.

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

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.

I have been a firm believer in the federal structure of our country as enshrined in the Constitution.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I’m not leading them to some false God or something like that.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

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

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