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

Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.

Trying to meet new women, it’s always a little more difficult as opposed to calling somebody I knew that’s single and trying to rebuild that connection.

It was weird to be married; you kind of lose your identity. You’re suddenly somebody’s wife. And you’re like, ‚Oh, I’m half of a couple now. I’ve lost me.‘

A family shares hardships and a connected history.

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.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

Logically, harmony must come from the heart… Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.

Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

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.

When I say I’m going to take care of a woman, I don’t just mean physically or sexually or romantically. I’m going to take care of her emotionally and spiritually. I’m going to take care of her in all ways. I take a lot of pride in that today.

I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it’s almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.

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.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.

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

I met my husband before I became a star, and he doesn’t care about any of it.

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

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

I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.

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

My wife and I love each other very much.

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.

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.

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

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.

For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.

We never love a person, but only qualities.

Disagreement is something normal.

When I was married, I definitely went through a lying period.

I was never a boy magnet at school. There was always the girl all the guys liked and wanted to date, but it was never me.

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

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don’t know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

All mankind love a lover.

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

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people’s happiness.

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.

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.

Doing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, because you feel so much pressure to do well that night. But I think everyone’s grown to accept that and so they give me my space at the show.

I always wanted to be loved.

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

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

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

Everything is clearer when you’re in love.

I’m not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.

I want to be a man who is truthful and who won’t let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, ‚Here I am. This is me.‘ I feel there’s something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

Love is not consolation. It is light.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

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.

I believe when it comes to love, there’s something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don’t think I have a pattern.

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship – never.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.