In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.

Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can’t ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment’s notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow – that’s vulnerability.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It’s also the dangerous part and it’s an ugly emotion that hurts.

I am confident that partnering my Dollywood Company with a great company like Gaylord will create something truly special.

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

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

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‚understand‘ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I’d worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: ‚Don’t hide these things from me. I’d rather you ask me these things straight out, and I’ll answer all your questions.‘

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

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.

When you have good friends you’ve been around, every time they talk, you don’t give them your full attention. You don’t look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you’re listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

In married life three is company and two none.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

I was never a boy magnet at school. There was always the girl all the guys liked and wanted to date, but it was never me.

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that’s called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.

Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.

Our Nation must defend the sanctity of marriage.

Federalism is no longer the fault line of Centre-State relations but the definition of a new partnership of Team India. Citizens now have the ease of trust, not the burden of proof and process. Businesses find an environment that is open and easy to work in.

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

I married my best friend that happens to be a girl.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

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

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

You can write a song about being in love with someone, but you don’t have to be in love with anyone.

Women don’t try to use me.

A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.

Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy – well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I’m President, I never will.

To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.

I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

Friend, there’s no greater investment in life than in being a people builder. Relationships are more important than our accomplishments.

You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.

The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

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?

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

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

I’m working at trying to be a Christian, and that’s serious business. It’s like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy – it’s serious business.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

I’m the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that’s horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

I’m just a friendly person; that runs in my family.

It’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well.

Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don’t mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That’s not power. That’s just corruption.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

A woman can’t be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can’t do it by herself.

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.