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.

You can’t be in love with a Google search.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

People like music when they’re in love, but they don’t need it as much. You need music when you’re missing someone or you’re pining for someone or you’re forgetting someone or you’re trying to process what just happened.

I think I have had so much blessing – I’ve had my brother, who was brilliant – I think my family came closest to making a genius when they made my brother – Bailey was just all of that. He loved me.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.

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.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we’re even alive at all.

Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

How do I know about a man’s needs for a sex symbol? I’m a girl.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

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

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.

Oh, this base heart of ours! Hath it not enough tinder in it to set on fire the course of nature? If a spark do but fall into it, any one of our members left to itself would dishonour Christ, deny the Lord that bought us, and turn back into perdition.

If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything.

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

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

Even paranoids have real enemies.

‚Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.

The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.

The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.

Doing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, because you feel so much pressure to do well that night. But I think everyone’s grown to accept that and so they give me my space at the show.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

I always wanted a family.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

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

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

I love to flirt, and I’ve never met a man I didn’t like.

Enemies are so stimulating.

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

Women may fall when there’s no strength in men.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

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

Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace marked on the heart of the element by the psychical convergence of the universe upon itself.

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

I love making people laugh. And I love laughing.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

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.

I’ve laid my friends bare.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what’s really happening to me, even if it’s a tough pill to swallow for people around me… I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.