I’ve never had a dislike for men. I’ve been badly treated by some. But I’ve been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.

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

Men like a ref decision because they just want to get back to the game.

Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.

But there is a difference between cozying up to power and being close to power.

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone’s wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

When I say I’m going to take care of a woman, I don’t just mean physically or sexually or romantically. I’m going to take care of her emotionally and spiritually. I’m going to take care of her in all ways. I take a lot of pride in that today.

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.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

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

Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn’t mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you’ve forgotten high school.

They are resilient children, but they are children, and as much as they need help to understand the hard truths in life, they also need what we all need – protection and love.

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

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it’s a better way of telling the stories.

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

If I love you, I show you I love you every day. Little things, big things.

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

We’re hardwired for connection. There’s no arguing with the bioscience. But we can want it so badly we’re trying to hot-wire it.

If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.

In the public eye, girls and women with strong perspectives are hated. If you’re a girl with an opinion, people just hate you. There are still people who are afraid of successful women, and that’s so lame.

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

I love the ending of a movie where two people end up together. Preferably if there’s rain and an airport or running or a confession of love.

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia – to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

My husband is everything to me and without him it’s just not the same.

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.

Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.

We’re so immaturely cynical as a culture. We’re not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they’re stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

I think that it’s okay to be mad at someone who hurt you. This isn’t about, like, the pageantry of trying to seem like nothing affects you.

I’ve always felt heroic about my life… As a child, I remember little girls in the playground moaning about how boys could do more than they could. I didn’t think that was the case at all. My parents didn’t treat me as a girl.

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

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

I purposely don’t talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But I do say that I want you to be blessed. To me, prosperity is having health, having great children, having peace, good relationships. It’s not about the money.

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

I searched for years I found no love. I’m sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.

House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad.

I don’t have time to be lonely. And I get fearful of relationships because I feel guilty about wanting someone to be completely faithful and loyal, when I can’t even give them 10 percent of the attention that they need. It’s just the reality of my time, my life, my schedule.

Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.

Men weren’t always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Friends accept you the way you are.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.