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

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

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another.

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin‘ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

It is the duty of every thoughtful Indian not to marry. In case he is helpless in regard to marriage, he should abstain from sexual intercourse with his wife.

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it – and sometimes three.

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

In order to have friends, you must first be one.

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

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.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

I never thought I’d have children; I never thought I’d be in love, I never thought I’d meet the right person. Having come from a broken home – you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don’t look for them.

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

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.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

I’m married. My wife, Stella – a beautiful woman. She’s brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom.

All you need is love.

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

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

I thank God I’m myself and for the life I’m given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

I don’t know what’s better gettin‘ laid or gettin‘ paid.

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

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

Never get married in college; it’s hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you’ve already made one mistake.

It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

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.

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

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

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.

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

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.

Don’t get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

If a man’s character is to be abused there’s nobody like a relative to do the business.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

I’ve laid my friends bare.

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

Rioting is a childish way of trying to be a man, but it takes time to rise out of the hell of hatred and frustration and accept that to be a man you don’t have to riot.

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

A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I’m writing about New York.

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.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

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.‘

The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

True friends stab you in the front.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘

I didn’t have a father figure in the house.

My wife doesn’t even want to spend 2 hours with me.

Life’s too short to deal with other people’s insecurities.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Marriage is scary to me, man.

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.

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.