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

Men want to make women happy.

They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.

When your mother asks, ‚Do you want a piece of advice?‘ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.

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

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

One of the most terrible feelings in the world is knowing that someone else doesn’t like you. Especially when you don’t know what you’ve done to deserve it.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

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.

Ever since I dated a woman, I know what it is to grab a curve on a woman’s body. Skinny’s not fine when the lights are low.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.

Those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

He that overvalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.

Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

What the heck is true love? I remember feeling, back when I was 12 and ‚going‘ with this girl, ‚Is this true love?‘

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

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

Love is the one wild card.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.

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.

I can’t relate to lazy people. We don’t speak the same language. I don’t understand you. I don’t want to understand you.

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.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

Every once in a while I get the highly inappropriate proposal which is like, ‚Wow, Really! You don’t even know me and I don’t know you at all, and you want that to happen? Tonight? Ok, I get off work at 7.30.‘

Being a good husband is like being a good stand-up comic – you need ten years before you can even call yourself a beginner.

I spend a lot of time just, you know, with my girlfriend and my dog. And I mean, we don’t have a lot of furniture in our house, so it’s really simple. And we’re trying to build products for everyone in the world, right. And you don’t want to get isolated to do that.

I never fall in love.

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds, they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material.

I cap myself when I shop; I don’t like to spend extravagant amounts on clothes. But, I do get lent clothes for events, it’s scary to wear something so expensive, but I feel really pampered.

My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art.

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

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

I think, a lot of times when you meet someone, you feel like you need to appear like you’re not interested in them so that they’ll be more interested in you. But what happens when you start showing him that you actually like him? What’s he gonna do then? Play the tape forward; how do you keep a guy like that? I don’t want to sign up for that.

I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.

It’s not possible to stop love.

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night’s date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn’t think of looking at another woman.

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that’s when I think life is over.

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

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

I have more friends in New York than Paris.

Women don’t try to use me.

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

Anxiety and spiritual searching have been consistent themes with me, and that figures into my worldview. But I tend to make my songs sound like relationship songs.

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.

Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.

Men exist for the sake of one another.

I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.