No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

I don’t know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author’s world.

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.

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.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

I always wanted a family.

I can’t go out with a Republican.

Dear friends, we may well sing to our Beloved when it is near the time of our departure. It draws near, and as it approaches, we must not dread it, but rather thank God for it.

As I get older, I tend to put more into family than I used to.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

‚My country, right or wrong‘ is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying ‚My mother, drunk or sober.‘

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

I can’t deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you.

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

Trust is hard to come by. That’s why my circle is small and tight. I’m kind of funny about making new friends.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

This is love: the flowering of love is meditation.

What’s really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.

I’ve had moments when I’ve thought about somebody, picked up the phone to call them and they are on the line already, and I think that maybe there’s some vibration, some connection.

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

We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

When you give, it comes back to you.

I love food.

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

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.

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.

My mother loved children – she would have given anything if I had been one.

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.

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

I rely on other people every day of my life.

My friends, there are no friends.

A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether there is any love for the church in the hearts of those who pay so much attention to the scandals.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

When people say ‚marriage‘ to me… It’s always a means to an end. Everyone’s so in a rush to define the relationship.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Me and my dad are friends. We’re cool. I’ll never be disappointed again, because I don’t expect anything anymore from him. I just let him exist, and that’s how we get along.

Within one’s own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.

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

When I talk to kids, I’m really listening. When I do that, we have a little bit of a bigger connection than me being Kendrick Lamar and you being a student. It’s almost like we’re friends. Because a friend listens.

If people wonder, yes, Hillary Clinton is my friend. She has been a friend to me and Barack and Malia and Sasha, and Bill and Chelsea have been embracing and supportive from the very day my husband took the oath of office.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s.

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.