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.

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

I desire to press forward for direction to my Master in all things; but as to trusting to my own obedience and righteousness, I should be worse than a fool and ten times worse than a madman.

Preparation for a mission is important. A mission is a voluntary act of service to God and humankind. Missionaries support that privilege with their personal savings. Parents, families, friends, and donors to the General Missionary Fund may also assist.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

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

I don’t have a type. I don’t have a specific kind of human being. It’s just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I’ve ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

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.

If you’re talking to a man who wouldn’t fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you’re talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.

In too much of the West, everyone wants the guarantee of safety, and never having to make any decisions.

No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.

I found it hard to be young. When I was married in my twenties, I hated being regarded as ‚the little wife.‘ You don’t know what it was like then! I’d never even written a cheque. I had to ask my husband for money for groceries.

We never love a person, but only qualities.

I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it’s a better way of telling the stories.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

People like to hear the word ‚love.‘

I’ll never tell a lie. I’ll never make a misleading statement. I’ll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I’ll never avoid a controversial issue.

Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

Has Jesus saved me? I dare not speak with any hesitation here; I know He has. His Word is true; therefore, I am saved.

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Single life is so overrated.

Ultimately, who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business.

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

Absolutely not. I have no problem with commitment. In fact, I love having someone in my life.

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‚I’ll buy a million dollars‘ worth of love.‘ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

For me, one of the toughest things about Valentine’s Day is that it gets geared up as the day to profess your love. See, T-E-S-T – that’s a bad word that doesn’t go with L-O-V-E.

Women may fall when there’s no strength in men.

The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.

The relationship to one’s fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one’s striving.

My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that’s not so bad; but New York City?

So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.

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.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

I repeat… that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

Part of our tradition as black women is that we are universalists. Black children, yellow children, red children, brown children, that is the black woman’s normal, day-to-day relationship. In my family alone, we are about four different colors.

I don’t want to get into it, but if you know someone, it doesn’t mean you agree with everything they say or they do.

People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.

I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.

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

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

I think any man who lets a woman pick what he should wear… I mean, you gotta draw the line somewhere as a man. I see these guys, ‚My wife told me to wear this!‘ And I just shake my head.

You are Mrs. Reagan because Mr. Reagan loves you with all his heart.

I don’t have to ‚freedom-kiss‘ my wife when what I really want to do is French-kiss her.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they’re actresses or singers or things like that.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

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

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

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.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.