Friend, there’s no greater investment in life than in being a people builder. Relationships are more important than our accomplishments.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Remember, it’s as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

You don’t want to live your life and then meet someone. You want to share your life with someone. That’s what I’m missing right now.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

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.

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

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

Single life is so overrated.

Part of me feels you can’t say you were truly in love if it didn’t last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that’s when I’ll know it’s real – because it lasted.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

If I wouldn’t have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.

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

A man should never neglect his family for business.

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.

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

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.

There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.

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

I think I have to trust that you end up with the person you’re supposed to end up with, and that everything in between is there to teach you stuff.

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

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

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

All mankind love a lover.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

In married life three is company and two none.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

Doing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, because you feel so much pressure to do well that night. But I think everyone’s grown to accept that and so they give me my space at the show.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

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

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 don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s.

I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it’s a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.

Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can – that is their secret.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

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.

Who, being loved, is poor?

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.

Marriage is the death of hope.

One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.

It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend’s folly.

Everything is clearer when you’re in love.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

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

Within one’s own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.

We do not judge the people we love.

I’ve never had a divorce, but I’ve seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can’t write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I’m able to kind of express it, or their joy.

Buy land, they’re not making it anymore.

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

To get a hold on boys you must be their friend.

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.

Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We’ve been so busy damning ourselves for years. We’ve done it all, and yet we don’t take credit for it.

Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don’t mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That’s not power. That’s just corruption.

‚Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

I feel like I’m the kind of guy that would have kids before getting married. The first thing would be kids.