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

One of the most terrible feelings in the world is knowing that someone else doesn’t like you. Especially when you don’t know what you’ve done to deserve it.

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.

It is fun to be in the same decade with you.

I’m pretty sure I don’t have any songs that are about how much I love someone. They’re all either about, like, ‚I hate you,‘ or ‚You make me hate me.‘

Like associates with like.

I will never be happy without having someone. Going to sleep alone kills me.

I’ve learned that usually, the less I know about other people, the better off I am.

You’re unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.

You can’t have it all, all at once. Who – man or woman – has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

There are always people always asking you for something. But I feel like I have a foundation. I have a supporting cast where it doesn’t bother me too much.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it’s my mind.

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

So many guys are so conservative with their hair, and I always joke with all my buddies when they mess with me, and I’ll say, ‚That’s right, keep the same haircut for ten years.‘ How fun is that?

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don’t know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.

Only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.

One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

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.

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

If you get down and quarell everyday, you’re saying prayers to the devil, I say.

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

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

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

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.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

If I think too hard about a relationship, I’ll talk myself out of it.

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

I have a family, loving aunts, and a good home. No, on the surface I seem to have everything except my one true friend. All I think about when I’m with friends is having a good time. I can’t bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. We don’t seem to be able to get any closer, and that’s the problem.

My husband says I look like a Q-tip.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.

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

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

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other.

My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I’m so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don’t have the guts to take their names out of the book.

We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother – but… when she became our child, the affection came.

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.

If you’re talking to a man who wouldn’t fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you’re talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.

I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.

I’ve had moments when I’ve thought about somebody, picked up the phone to call them and they are on the line already, and I think that maybe there’s some vibration, some connection.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

To be loved is very demoralizing.

I think that you can love people without it being the great love.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

The second time around, I’ll understand that, as a husband, my wife doesn’t care about my opinions. I just need to tell her the things that will continue to help me stack the brownie points.

Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

I’ve missed out on a lot of things, going out with friends.

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

I can imagine it’s hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn’t know.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.