Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone’s wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

As I get older, I tend to put more into family than I used to.

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

He that has not got a wife is not yet a complete man.

One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what’s really happening to me, even if it’s a tough pill to swallow for people around me… I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

Love can do much, but duty more.

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

It’s impossible to live a life totally free of feelings. God created all of us to be emotional creatures, and feelings are a big part of our lives.

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.

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

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

My dad was never married. He was kind of a rolling stone. But he was never disrespectful. At the same time, even though he had women in his life when I was a kid, there wasn’t any consistency.

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we’d all love one another.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

If you get something right, you really feel it, right in your chest, on stage. I think it’s an incomparable experience.

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

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it’s true.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

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

There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls, but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd. Of course, I expect this, but the knife still cuts.

Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.

I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy.

There’s a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

Character is expressed through our behavior patterns, or natural responses to things.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

For me, often, there’s such a cloud of melancholia about knowing I’m going to have to leave my daughter on her own. I don’t know what age that is going to be, thank God. It just doubles me up in grief.

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

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

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend – and he’s a priest.

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there’s nothing really to talk about.

Really, I don’t like roller coasters.

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

Fame may go by and – so long, I’ve had you.

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.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Who, being loved, is poor?

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

A friend is nothing but a known enemy.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It’s always been my way of expressing what, for me, is inexpressible by any other means.

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

Marriage is the death of hope.

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

The Christ-symbol is of the greatest importance for psychology in so far as it is perhaps the most highly developed and differentiated symbol of the self, apart from the figure of the Buddha.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

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.