Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.

Love… it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it.

One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.

Ain’t nothing like a good cry.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.

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

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.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

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.

Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

Charlotte Bronte was writing about sex. I supposed Jane Austen was, too. Where do you get a hero like Darcy unless you are writing about sex?

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

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

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren’t susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.

I am radically, insanely, nutty in love with Jesus!

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don’t know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

I think any man who lets a woman pick what he should wear… I mean, you gotta draw the line somewhere as a man. I see these guys, ‚My wife told me to wear this!‘ And I just shake my head.

Understanding is a two-way street.

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

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.

Women. They are a complete mystery.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

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

If I cry, it’s because I’m very angry and I can’t do anything about it because I’ve run into a dead end. That’s when the tears would come down.

I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

My mother taught children to love to dance.

Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish.

Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.

Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.

I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

The wisest hustler can suddenly fall for the worst tramp and lose all of his money on her. The hustler is aware of his own weaknesses and openings to con. This awareness is his edge.

Oh, my mama was awesome. Very strict, overreligious, loved the Lord, loved rules. But she had to be that way because of where we were growing up, the neighborhood I was from.

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.

Women – always in trouble with them, but can’t live without them.

Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It’s the fear that we’re not good enough.

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

I want to be a man who is truthful and who won’t let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, ‚Here I am. This is me.‘ I feel there’s something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

The human heart is the same the world over.

Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

The more I grow in popularity, the lonelier it gets. Because you don’t really know me. You just know this part of me. You fell in love with that. But it’s way more intricate than what meets the surface.

Politics doesn’t make strange bedfellows – marriage does.

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. So I distance myself, because I feel everything.

The way to know life is to love many things.