I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals.

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

Let God’s promises shine on your problems.

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

Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That’s definitely my first response. I think change is more likely to happen if both partners have common language and a shared lens to see problems.

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

There are no rules when it comes to love.

The Jesuits have a vow to obey the pope, but if the pope is a Jesuit, maybe he should have a vow to obey the superior general… I feel like I’m still a Jesuit in terms of my spirituality, what I have in my heart.

These people are very unskilled in arms… with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.

Patience is key for getting over a breakup. That, and trailing off your interaction after the breakup.

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

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

Why is it that although it takes us years to get into our messes, we expect God to get us out of them in a few days?

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

What good am I? I can’t have kids. I can’t cook. I’ve been divorced three times. Who would want me?

Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.

Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.

I’ve learned that usually, the less I know about other people, the better off I am.

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

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.

When we trust God more than our feelings, it confuses the devil. I mean, when he throws you his best shot and he can’t budge you from believing God, he won’t know what to do with you anymore.

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

Like associates with like.

The more I grow in popularity, the lonelier it gets. Because you don’t really know me. You just know this part of me. You fell in love with that. But it’s way more intricate than what meets the surface.

It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.

It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.

True friends stab you in the front.

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

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.

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

I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

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

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

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

We’re so immaturely cynical as a culture. We’re not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they’re stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another.

Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.

We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

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

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

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

My evidence that I am saved does not lie in the fact that I preach, or that I do this or that. All my hope lies in this: that Jesus Christ came to save sinners. I am a sinner, I trust Him, then He came to save me, and I am saved.

I think we all change each other’s paths. I don’t know which law idea that is in physics, but I don’t think any of us can live without affecting one another.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.

Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

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

We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother – but… when she became our child, the affection came.

I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can’t be locked up with anyone for too long.