Alimony – the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.

If I held you any closer I would be on the other side of you.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

Our Nation must defend the sanctity of marriage.

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.

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.

I’m a human being and I fall in love and sometimes I don’t have control of every situation.

I spend a lot of time just, you know, with my girlfriend and my dog. And I mean, we don’t have a lot of furniture in our house, so it’s really simple. And we’re trying to build products for everyone in the world, right. And you don’t want to get isolated to do that.

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

However my parents – both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

It is necessary to fall in love… if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

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.

Do not rebuke mockers, or they will hate you; rebuke the wise, and they will love you.

We think the Dred Scott decision is erroneous. We know the court that made it has often overruled its own decisions, and we shall do what we can to have it overrule this.

I would be married, but I’d have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

I’m drawn to bad romances.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

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

No matter how beautiful a woman might be, you’re always threatened by certain… You’re always threatened by other women, period.

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

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

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.

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

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.

They do not love that do not show their love.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

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

For me, it’s about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It’s where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that’s very important to me.

I know that a large part of my fan base is gay. They’ve shown me love from the start. I mean in this industry, everyone from my glam people to my dancers are gay. You can’t be homophobic in this line of work – I’m a pop star!

All of us are mentors. You’re mentors right here and now. And one of the things I’ve always done throughout my life, I have always found that person, that group of people that I was going to reach my hand out and help bring them along with me.

I have an urge to communicate. I think I’m a change from what it would be like dating a normal guy who doesn’t talk too much.

Even with my divorce and with everything, I don’t need money.

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

Our focus needs to be less on what our legacy’s going to be or how we can control each other and more how we can give to each other.

Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.

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

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

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

Mostly, my flying has been solo, but the preparation for it wasn’t. Without my husband’s help and encouragement, I could not have attempted what I have. Ours has been a contented and reasonable partnership, he with his solo jobs and I with mine. But always with work and play together, conducted under a satisfactory system of dual control.

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

I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.

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

The more I grow in popularity, the lonelier it gets. Because you don’t really know me. You just know this part of me. You fell in love with that. But it’s way more intricate than what meets the surface.

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying.

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.

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

To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.