A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

Agape, the love of each one of us for the other, from the closest to the furthest, is in fact the only way that Jesus has given us to find the way of salvation and of the Beatitudes.

I love being on stage, I love being able to tell a story, I love the fact that the audience listens and laughs at it. It makes me happy, and it’s what I live for.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

I’m doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.

I don’t mean to be cocky, but if I’m never on TV again, if I never make another dollar, I am proud. I did what I wanted to do.

The best workers, like the happiest livers, look upon their work as a kind of game: the harder they play the more enjoyable it becomes.

I’m sick of the tabloids‘ saying I obsess over guys. Why would you obsess over guys? They don’t like it.

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.

Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night’s date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn’t think of looking at another woman.

It always seems odd to me that the fundamental laws of physics, when discovered, can appear in so many different forms that are not apparently identical at first, but, with a little mathematical fiddling, you can show the relationship.

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

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

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness.

You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

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.

If someone lies, well, you had a choice to trust that person or not. I think the way my father raised me, well, he trusted everybody. And that worked for him.

Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.

You might not have the things you want, but if you check carefully, you got all you need.

William Maxwell’s my favorite North American writer, I think. And an Irish writer who used to write for ‚The New Yorker‘ called Maeve Brennan, and Mary Lavin, another Irish writer. There were a lot of writers that I found in ‚The New Yorker‘ in the Fifties who wrote about the same type of material I did – about emotions and places.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can’t put a dollar sign on.

I’d rather tell you how I really feel.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Doo-wop is special music to me because it’s so straightforward and melody-driven and captures emotions.

He that has not got a wife is not yet a complete man.

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

There is no love of life without despair of life.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

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 approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people’s happiness.

The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes – or just by staring into space.

No, I’m not anguished and tormented.

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.

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

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

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.

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.

I always keep my guard up with guys and I guess that can get in the way sometimes. I can make them go through hell.

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.