When the people you love are gone, you’re alone.

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

I don’t like to beat people down. They need to be lifted up.

I don’t hate women – they just sometimes make me mad.

To me, if you’re trying to impress a girl, get a date, they’re gonna like that more because you’re a confident guy. That’s what it comes down to.

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

However my parents – both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

Contemplation of life after retirement and life after death can help you deal with contemporary challenges.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

If you cry over a guy, then your friends can’t date him. It can’t even be considered.

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

I feel impressed to counsel those engaged in personal challenges to do right. In particular, my heart reaches out to those who feel discouraged by the magnitude of their struggle.

Understanding is a two-way street.

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.

The important thing is that your teammates have to know you’re pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

Encouragement to others is something everyone can give. Somebody needs what you have to give. It may not be your money; it may be your time. It may be your listening ear. It may be your arms to encourage. It may be your smile to uplift. Who knows?

The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.

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

A friend to all is a friend to none.

No matter how beautiful a woman might be, you’re always threatened by certain… You’re always threatened by other women, period.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I’ve never been in love before – I don’t really know? I think I have. I guess it’s subjective in that way.

I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.

Encouragement to all women is – let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let’s see if we can’t prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.

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

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

I’ve had two cancer bouts in my years on the Court, and the first one, Justice O’Connor told me, ‚Now, you do the chemotherapy on Friday because you’ll get over it during the weekend and you can be back in court on Monday.‘

I always felt an outsider.

All you need is love.

Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone’s singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person. That’s the only way I can find an explanation for why 55,000 people would want to come see me sing.

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

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 don’t have to ‚freedom-kiss‘ my wife when what I really want to do is French-kiss her.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

Obviously, you go through a lot of emotional turmoil in a divorce.

I’m no longer just a candidate. I’m the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn’t return. I’ve shared the pain of families who’ve lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who’ve lost their jobs.

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

Feeling like you’re respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.

My whole family have all been through a difficult time. My focus is my children, our children.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

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

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

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

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

We’re a blip in the existence of the universe, and we’re constantly trying to pull each other down. Not doing things to help each other.

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one’s people that has not previously been taken into account.

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.

Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.

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

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing – hopefully.