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.

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.

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

I ain’t here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I’m just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that’s the way yall need Jesus.

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

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

I left school to concentrate on racing. It was a family decision between my mum, dad and myself.

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.

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

It’s hard for anybody who’s been with me not to feel starved for affection when I’m making love to my ideas. Maybe it’s not meant for me to settle down and be married.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken. More: You have ceded them power.

If you cry over a guy, then your friends can’t date him. It can’t even be considered.

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

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don’t give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Don’t ever criticize yourself. Don’t go around all day long thinking, ‚I’m unattractive, I’m slow, I’m not as smart as my brother.‘ God wasn’t having a bad day when he made you… If you don’t love yourself in the right way, you can’t love your neighbour. You can’t be as good as you are supposed to be.

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

There are two kinds of people in this world. ‚I‘ people and ‚we‘ people. I’ve always tried to be a ‚we‘ person.

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

Then, when I’m in these relationships with people who are also creative, or creative in their own way, what happens is the attraction is initially there and it’s all unicorns and rainbows. And then they hate me.

I’ve never been a boyfriend kind of girl.

Who, being loved, is poor?

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.

I’ve known and continue to know every one of these major world leaders by their first names, and I have access to them.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

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.‘

A family looks for ways to support and inspire one another.

It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend’s folly.

I don’t eat with beautiful women alone.

I’m very sensitive. I remember, as a kid at school, if someone in the classroom was sad or angry, it could have a great impact on me.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

People were saying that David Geffen and I had gotten married and it just blew me away. Not that they thought I was gay, but that they thought I could land a guy that hot.

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

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

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing – hopefully.

The mind of a 19-year-old is very different from the mind of a 26-year-old. You grow. You get into better relationships. You experience more, meet more people, better people. But when you’re in a dark hole at an earlier point in your life – you write about the mindset you’re in at that moment.

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.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

To be clear: we have fights and problems like any other couple.

He who hath many friends hath none.

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.

Every single one of the guys that I’ve written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

It’s a funny thing that when a man hasn’t anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

Alimony – the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.

The average Hollywood film star’s ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend – and he’s a priest.