Young love is wild and outrageous, laughing at moderation and blinding us to common sense.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

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

I always wanted a family.

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

I don’t have time to be lonely. And I get fearful of relationships because I feel guilty about wanting someone to be completely faithful and loyal, when I can’t even give them 10 percent of the attention that they need. It’s just the reality of my time, my life, my schedule.

Most of the people that I deal with are human. So I’ve had a lot of experience with that.

Know your worth! People always act like they’re doing more for you than you’re doing for them.

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

My wife has about everything I can think of.

Hear reason, or she’ll make you feel her.

Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged.

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

It is necessary to fall in love… if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

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.

Arthur Miller wouldn’t have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or ‚our‘ country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.

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.

MySpace is my wife… Facebook is my mistress.

I realized, ‚Yo, I can’t do anything in moderation. I don’t know how.‘

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

She’s been married so many times she has rice marks on her face.

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy.

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

Doing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, because you feel so much pressure to do well that night. But I think everyone’s grown to accept that and so they give me my space at the show.

Friend, there’s no greater investment in life than in being a people builder. Relationships are more important than our accomplishments.

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

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

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.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

In the real world, children love me.

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.

Women. They are a complete mystery.

Some people love so hard that they can’t control those emotions when they’re at their deepest point.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.

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.

We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.

You pay a certain penalty for going your own way. A lot of people think you’re nuts, and you’re not as popular with girls as you should be.

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it’s with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.

For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.

I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people’s kids than I did my own.

You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s.