A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

It’s just human nature to try and figure things out. So, when we’re in the midst of a situation, we usually try to reason our way through it.

Eating is so intimate. It’s very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you’re inviting a person into your life.

My wife and I love each other very much.

A man’s only as old as the woman he feels.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

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

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it – and sometimes three.

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

When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

Single life is so overrated.

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

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

In order to have friends, you must first be one.

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship – never.

I let people fill in the blanks on their own. If they want to think about their ex, that’s fine. If they want to think about maybe who one of my exes is, then that’s fine. And it might not be right, because I’m the only one who knows what these songs are really about. It’s the one shred of privacy I have in the matter.

I’ve got a crush on my backing singer.

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

The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

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

In one day, I have times where I’m feeling great, I feel like I love my life, and then 2:30 rolls around and I’m the angriest man alive. My wife sees it.

Part of our tradition as black women is that we are universalists. Black children, yellow children, red children, brown children, that is the black woman’s normal, day-to-day relationship. In my family alone, we are about four different colors.

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.

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.

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

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

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone’s wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison.

The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.

Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you’ve got all the answers, then don’t call what you do ‚faith.‘

Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can’t really understand why it doesn’t obsess everyone – I think it does really, I’m just a little more out about it.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

Really, who you are is defined by the people who you know – not even the people that you know, but the people you spend time with and the people that you love and the people that you work with. I guess we show your friends in your profile, but that’s kind of different from the information you put in your profile.

I had this child, and it destroyed my family.

House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad.