I don’t have to ‚freedom-kiss‘ my wife when what I really want to do is French-kiss her.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

I think that it’s okay to be mad at someone who hurt you. This isn’t about, like, the pageantry of trying to seem like nothing affects you.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

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

When you have kids, you see life through different eyes. You feel love more deeply and are maybe a little more compassionate. It’s inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

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

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

Do you not realize that the love the Father bestowed on the perfect Christ He now bestows on you?

A family shares hardships and a connected history.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

We were born with a capacity to grow, love, marry, and form families.

You know what, I’m very attracted to someone who makes me laugh and is that charming. Really, I could be charmed by anyone. I’m just a sucker for somebody that is charming.

The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you’re making a mistake but let you go on with it, that’s when it ruins your mind state as an artist.

The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they’re gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you’re going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world… Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.

The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature’s gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

How much better it would be if all could be more aware of God’s providence and love and express that gratitude to Him.

Women. They are a complete mystery.

When you really don’t like a guy, they’re all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they’re no longer interested.

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

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

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

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.

How do I know about a man’s needs for a sex symbol? I’m a girl.

Intimates are predestined.

I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other – and we still are.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

It’s a funny thing that when a man hasn’t anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

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

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

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.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

I love Manchester. Everyone knows that – I have said it many times. Manchester is in my heart.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: ‚Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?‘ We must always consider the person.

People like music when they’re in love, but they don’t need it as much. You need music when you’re missing someone or you’re pining for someone or you’re forgetting someone or you’re trying to process what just happened.

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.

Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related.

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’ve been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she’ll kill me.

In the flush of love’s light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.

Young love is wild and outrageous, laughing at moderation and blinding us to common sense.

Ranking among the greatest Christmas movie classics, ‚It’s a Wonderful Life‘ tells a beautiful story about the priceless value of relationships.

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

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.

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.