Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

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.

If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘

The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

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

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.

I’ve found that men I’ve dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I’ve found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren’t competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been… challenging.

If you get something right, you really feel it, right in your chest, on stage. I think it’s an incomparable experience.

I don’t believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

There are always people always asking you for something. But I feel like I have a foundation. I have a supporting cast where it doesn’t bother me too much.

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

Love is an interesting thing.

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‚If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?‘ And whenever the answer has been ‚No‘ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

I have an urge to communicate. I think I’m a change from what it would be like dating a normal guy who doesn’t talk too much.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

Love is only one of many passions.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.

I’m more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related.

The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.

Things ain’t what they used to be and never were.

If you like a person you say ‚let’s go into business together.‘ Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

When I don’t feel free and can’t do what I want I just react. I go against it.

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.

Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.

I wish I knew why I am so anguished.

It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

Though lovers be lost, love shall not.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.

I believe when it comes to love, there’s something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don’t think I have a pattern.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

It’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well.

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we’d all love one another.

For me, it’s about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It’s where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that’s very important to me.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

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!

The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

To be social is to be forgiving.

People like music when they’re in love, but they don’t need it as much. You need music when you’re missing someone or you’re pining for someone or you’re forgetting someone or you’re trying to process what just happened.

I make a lot of expressions constantly. I’m animated.

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

What air is to the body, to feel understood is to the heart.

There’s a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more.

Actually, you have to be a little bit in love with your leading man and vice versa. If you’re going to portray love, you have to feel it. You can’t do it any other way. But you don’t carry it beyond the set.