I’m drawn to bad romances.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background, and I think the greatest thing to do is to pray that God will give you love for them, and I do.

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

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

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.

The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.

The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

Love is a serious mental disease.

My body is quite tiny, but a lot of the emotions I feel are pretty explosive. They have to come out.

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

Patience is key for getting over a breakup. That, and trailing off your interaction after the breakup.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

Marriage is the most wonderful thing ever.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back.

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

Maria is the best reason to come home.

When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.

Confidence, as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I loved cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

Jesus is a divine guest inside of you all the time – one who loves, understands, sees and hears you. He wants to live in oneness with you… to be the centerpiece of everything you do.

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women… no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don’t give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it’s a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.

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

Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.

I was always interested in choreography – in making people think and feel something.

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world… Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

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

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.

People have different emotional levels. Especially when you’re young.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

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

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.

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.

My family is very good about visiting me, and other friends as well.

I had no bad moment in my relationship with Dortmund. Not one second.

If I think too hard about a relationship, I’ll talk myself out of it.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.