Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.

Every man’s reputation proceeds from those of his own household.

It is better to be deceived by one’s friends than to deceive them.

There’s love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we’re alone in our heads.

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

Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

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.

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it’s just the thing that every man wants – to have a son and heir.

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

My friends, there are no friends.

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

I was gutted to leave my boyfriend at home when I started my tour, but taking my pillow was like taking a little bit of him with me.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

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.

I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire.

If music be the food of love, play on.

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.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we’re even alive at all.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

I think love is one of the purest things you can sing about. One of the best things you can sing about.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

Not necessity, not desire – no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything – health, food, a place to live, entertainment – they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

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

Treachery has existed as long as there’s been warfare, and there’s always been a few people that you couldn’t trust.

The important thing is to be in love with something.

Jesus is a divine guest inside of you all the time – one who loves, understands, sees and hears you. He wants to live in oneness with you… to be the centerpiece of everything you do.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

When you’re traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonically, lyrically, visually. Conversations with women with different accents and stories told in those accents. I like to create characters based on different people I’ve met, and relationships. I like to tell stories loosely based on real-life events.

No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.

My mother fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56. She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold them in her arms. But my other children will never have the chance to know her and experience how loving and gracious she was.

I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

‚Young Indiana Jones’ was one of the happiest times I ever had, so I love television.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

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

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

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

These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I’d be a damn‘ fool if they weren’t.

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.

Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors… I mean it.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

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

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

Rocks and waters, etc., are words of God, and so are men. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love.