Like associates with like.

A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

I’m not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I’m the girl who rarely has a boyfriend.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

To be loved is very demoralizing.

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

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure – the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

It was weird to be married; you kind of lose your identity. You’re suddenly somebody’s wife. And you’re like, ‚Oh, I’m half of a couple now. I’ve lost me.‘

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

It’s hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don’t always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.

Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.

Funny is the world I live in. You’re funny, I’m interested. You’re not funny, I’m not interested.

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

I’ve done a lot of things I’m not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that.

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don’t know if it’s possible forever and ever.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

‚Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.

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.

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

The public doesn’t mind people living together without being married, providing they don’t overdo it.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

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

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

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

I’m sick of the tabloids‘ saying I obsess over guys. Why would you obsess over guys? They don’t like it.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

No man wants to settle down. It happens. Eventually you’re going to bump into somebody that makes you go, ‚Hmm, I don’t mind seeing this person every day.‘

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

Don’t get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.

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

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.

Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.

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.

I know that I’m not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don’t know how not to.

People were saying that David Geffen and I had gotten married and it just blew me away. Not that they thought I was gay, but that they thought I could land a guy that hot.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?

Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.

You bring children into the world. You love them with heart and soul.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

It’s always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you’re seeing the most beautiful thing on God’s Earth.

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

I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we’re even alive at all.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don’t think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I’m with them.

What the heck is true love? I remember feeling, back when I was 12 and ‚going‘ with this girl, ‚Is this true love?‘

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.