Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

I can’t consciously explain how people feel after reading my books. All is too personal.

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

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.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

If a man’s character is to be abused there’s nobody like a relative to do the business.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

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

Smiling makes me feel weak and not in control and not powerful and small.

My audience went, ‚Wait, why is she singing jazz? What’s going on?‘ And then they went, ‚Oh, because she can. Because she loves it.‘ And jazz, a music invented by the African-American community, is the greatest art form, I believe, to have ever come out of this country.

Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.

You pay a certain penalty for going your own way. A lot of people think you’re nuts, and you’re not as popular with girls as you should be.

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

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

Every man’s reputation proceeds from those of his own household.

I’m not ashamed to say I fear something.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

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

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing – hopefully.

I hate smiling. It makes me feel weak and powerless and small. I’ve always been like that; I don’t smile in any pictures.

It’s impossible to live a life totally free of feelings. God created all of us to be emotional creatures, and feelings are a big part of our lives.

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.

I have all the emotions that everyone has; it just appears that I don’t.

I believe when it comes to love, there’s something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don’t think I have a pattern.

I want to be a man who is truthful and who won’t let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, ‚Here I am. This is me.‘ I feel there’s something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.

When we’re falling in love or out of it, that’s when we most need a song that says how we feel. Yeah, I write a lot of songs about boys. And I’m very happy to do that.

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

Rocks and waters, etc., are words of God, and so are men. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

I mean, I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn’t mean I don’t get frustrated in my life.

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

Men want to make women happy.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.

There’s nothing better than having a baby. I’ve always loved children. I used to work summers at the YMCA and be in charge of, like, 30 preschool kids. I knew that when I had a child, I’d be overwhelmed, and it’s true… I can’t tell you how much my attitude has changed since we’ve got Frances. Holding my baby is the best drug in the world.

I take my kids to school. And if I go to work, I go to work, and they visit me on set. I come home. I have dinner with my family. I have breakfast with my family. I have a very solid, very warm home.

The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we’ll fail, and sometimes we’ll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you’ll find support.

Mad or glad, Mr. Reagan is head over heels in love with Mrs. Reagan and can’t even imagine a world without her – He loves her.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

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.

Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.

It was weird to be married; you kind of lose your identity. You’re suddenly somebody’s wife. And you’re like, ‚Oh, I’m half of a couple now. I’ve lost me.‘

Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery.

I’m working at trying to be a Christian, and that’s serious business. It’s like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy – it’s serious business.

If I’d married someone in show business, there’d be too much competition.