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

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

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

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

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

Just talk to me as a father – not what the Constitution says. What do you feel?

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

In my house I’m the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

Journalists are usually quite jealous people, especially of intellectuals who are supposed to be in fashion.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.

When you’re traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonically, lyrically, visually. Conversations with women with different accents and stories told in those accents. I like to create characters based on different people I’ve met, and relationships. I like to tell stories loosely based on real-life events.

It’s hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don’t always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.

Men and women do think differently, and frankly, we don’t understand each other. Not at all! But that’s what makes relationships so amazing.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

I’m sick of the tabloids‘ saying I obsess over guys. Why would you obsess over guys? They don’t like it.

The reason children accept discipline from their parents is because they know their parents love them.

When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

It’s with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

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

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

That is what fame is, isn’t it? To get the world to fall in love with you.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

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

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.

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

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

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

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.

It could be if I fight in front of one person or one million people. It’s still the same emotions.

If your mom cries a lot, you probably cry a lot. It’s what you learn.

You can’t have a relationship with a device whose limits are unknown to you, because without limits, it keeps becoming something else.

Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

It is better to be deceived by one’s friends than to deceive them.

Listen with your eyes for feelings.

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!

I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

You bring children into the world. You love them with heart and soul.

In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

I’ve always loved the fans in Scotland and have a little Scottish blood of my own.

It obviously bothers people when Real Madrid win. It makes them jealous. There isn’t a level playing field.

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

‚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.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

Emotions are continually affecting our thought processes and decisions, below the level of our awareness. And the most common emotion of them all is the desire for pleasure and the avoidance of pain.

We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.