Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.

I didn’t have a father figure in the house.

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.

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.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

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

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They’re only powerful when you got your back turned.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

I love Brad in every state.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

My mother did not like children.

I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.

At the end of the day, we started playing football because we loved it.

I’ve never had a divorce, but I’ve seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can’t write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I’m able to kind of express it, or their joy.

If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.

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

To be social is to be forgiving.

Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone… Bad food is fake food… food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people’s ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives.

When your mother asks, ‚Do you want a piece of advice?‘ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.

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

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

Single life is so overrated.

Creative people don’t behave very well generally. If you’re looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you’re gonna be depressed real fast. I don’t have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She’s my first priority.

I am a bit of a solitude person – a solitary personality. I like being on my own. I don’t have any major friendships or relationships with people.

Maria is the best reason to come home.

In hip-hop, there’s not a lot of love. There’s not a lot of love being spread. It’s always like ‚I’m stuntin‘ on you raps, or I’m better than you raps.‘ It’s not a lot of ‚Yo man, I idolize you raps.‘

I’m such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you’re heartbroken, but tomorrow you’ll be in love again.

Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

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

Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.

If I wouldn’t have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.

I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

I would never win an award for not loving pizza.

Love is an interesting thing.

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

Love is not consolation. It is light.

You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody’s ego, that’s it, game over.

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

There’s nothing better than having a baby. I’ve always loved children. I used to work summers at the YMCA and be in charge of, like, 30 preschool kids. I knew that when I had a child, I’d be overwhelmed, and it’s true… I can’t tell you how much my attitude has changed since we’ve got Frances. Holding my baby is the best drug in the world.

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

I’m married to an Italian woman, and I used to love cooking Italian at home, because it’s one-pot cooking. But my wife does not approve of my Italian cooking.

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

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