For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

God always has patience.

If you don’t trust the pilot, don’t go.

Everything God tells us to do is for our good. Whether it’s direction you get in His Word or something He’s specifically put in your heart for your situation in life, the absolute best thing you can ever do is obey Him promptly and completely.

The first time I ever saw snow skis was when I was 62 years old and that was 19 years ago and I’m still skiing. So, we’ll be skiing with some very close friends of the Carter Center letting them know what the Carter Center is doing around the world. We have programs in over 65 countries.

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.

I married my best friend that happens to be a girl.

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

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.

Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.

Be nice to your children. After all, they are going to choose your nursing home.

Treachery has existed as long as there’s been warfare, and there’s always been a few people that you couldn’t trust.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.

Trust is hard to come by. That’s why my circle is small and tight. I’m kind of funny about making new friends.

It isn’t necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.

God always takes the simplest way.

I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don’t know if it’s possible forever and ever.

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.

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

I make friends faster and easier than journalists.

It’s surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends.

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

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

I can’t deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you.

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

There was one incident at a movie theater where my girl got mad at these guys who were talking behind us. I never looked back there, but she was like, ‚Will you all just shut up!‘ And I just got up and moved three rows in front. She was like, ‚What are you doing?!‘ I was like, ‚You better get up here! I don’t play the fighting games.‘

I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman’s skillet and the man’s ax-helve.

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.

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?

My family didn’t have a lot of money, so I worked my heart out to get my degrees. But the minute I graduated, suddenly everyone was asking me, ‚Well, when are you going to get married and start having kids?‘ And the truth is I had no idea how I would balance the expected role of wife and mother with a challenging career.

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

Familiarity breeds contempt – and children.

In the real world, children love me.

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

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.

I just got to feel that whoever I marry has some real regard for me.

I have a very good family. I’m very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It’s one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.

A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

No one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert by yourself, but you are related. You cannot escape from that absolute fact. You cannot exist in isolation.

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.

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

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

The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

Men’s vows are women’s traitors!

It’s annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren’t they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you’re grateful, you’ll see God open up new doors.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

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

Because of a great love, one is courageous.