I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.

Who, being loved, is poor?

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

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

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

I think everyone should be with who they love.

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

I think any man who lets a woman pick what he should wear… I mean, you gotta draw the line somewhere as a man. I see these guys, ‚My wife told me to wear this!‘ And I just shake my head.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

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

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.

Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.

Have you ever asked yourselves what you are going to do when you grow up? In all likelihood you will get married, and before you know where you are, you will be mothers and fathers; and you will then be tied to a job, or to the kitchen, in which you will gradually wither away. Is that all that your life is going to be?

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

It’s not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn’t they’d be married too.

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

I searched for years I found no love. I’m sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.

Understanding is a two-way street.

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

Any man who doesn’t love his mama can’t be no friend of mine.

Let it be our delight to find our society in the circle of which Jesus is the center, and let us make those our friends who are the friends of Jesus.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

It’s probably the worst feeling in the world, when you’re deeply and madly in love with a woman and you know she’s not feeling you the same way, and you don’t know why.

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

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

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

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.

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

We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

Lovers often invest their first meetings with retrospective significance, as if to try to conjure the elements of the numinous out of the stubborn witness of the everyday.

For me, one of the toughest things about Valentine’s Day is that it gets geared up as the day to profess your love. See, T-E-S-T – that’s a bad word that doesn’t go with L-O-V-E.

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there’s too much fraternizing with the enemy.

I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.

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.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.

My wife and I don’t compete. We know each other’s preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That’s what friends do.

You don’t sign up for a divorce when you get married. It’s very painful. But it’s taught me a great deal about myself.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it’s to have any meaning in this world – and stop being its apologist.

To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

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.

The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody’s ego, that’s it, game over.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

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

Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

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.

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

The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.

I’m drawn to bad romances.