Familiarity breeds contempt – and children.

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.

It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

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.

Speak low, if you speak love.

Regarding marriage, it – somehow, it didn’t happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

See, people are watching you. Especially your children. They’re taking in every single thing you do. They are like video cameras with legs. And they are always in the record mode. They learn more from what you do than from what you say.

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

When I say I’m going to take care of a woman, I don’t just mean physically or sexually or romantically. I’m going to take care of her emotionally and spiritually. I’m going to take care of her in all ways. I take a lot of pride in that today.

To me, if you’re trying to impress a girl, get a date, they’re gonna like that more because you’re a confident guy. That’s what it comes down to.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

Love is an interesting thing.

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

If you’re the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I’m a parent. I have daughters.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

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

Don’t swap horses in crossing a stream.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

There is only a finger’s difference between a wise man and a fool.

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

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.

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

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

I definitely don’t think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.

It’s always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you’re seeing the most beautiful thing on God’s Earth.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

Wives are people who feel they don’t dance enough.

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

I think everyone should be with who they love.

I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

I teach children to be winners.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like – that’s a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they’re not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don’t care about money, and that’s not my problem.

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

You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.

Surely wisdom will come as we listen to learn from children, parents, partners, neighbors, Church leaders, and the Lord.

Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or ‚our‘ country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.

Love is only one of many passions.

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.