A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

I don’t really know that much about love, it turns out.

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

Sucking up to the biggies won’t get us anywhere.

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.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

Life’s too short to deal with other people’s insecurities.

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

All you need is love.

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.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

I know love is the answer.

They died hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.

There was one incident at a movie theater where my girl got mad at these guys who were talking behind us. I never looked back there, but she was like, ‚Will you all just shut up!‘ And I just got up and moved three rows in front. She was like, ‚What are you doing?!‘ I was like, ‚You better get up here! I don’t play the fighting games.‘

I boldly assert, in fact I think I know, that a lot of friendships and connections absolutely depend upon a sort of shared language, or slang. Not necessarily designed to exclude others, this can establish a certain comity and, even after a long absence, re-establish it in a second.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Demonstrate to the world, there is ‚No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy‘ than a U.S. Marine.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can’t be locked up with anyone for too long.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‚I’ll buy a million dollars‘ worth of love.‘ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

For some reason, all my characters come to me with their names attached to them. I never have to search for the names.

‚The Story of Us‘ is about running into someone I had been in a relationship with at an awards show, and we were seated a few seats away from each other. I just wanted to say to him, ‚Is this killing you? Because it’s killing me.‘ But I didn’t. Because I couldn’t. Because we both had these silent shields up.

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

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

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.

Assuming if there’s such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

It’s fun to be hopelessly in love. It’s dangerous, but it’s fun.

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it’s to have any meaning in this world – and stop being its apologist.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

‚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.‘

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

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.

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

If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.

When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

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.

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

When I was married, I definitely went through a lying period.

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.

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.

I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it’s absolutely true.

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