I don’t like cream puff, corny guys. Usually, they are the nice guys, the ones that won’t hurt you. They’ll pull out the chair for you and the whole nine yards. Everything is perfect and boring.

I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it’s a better way of telling the stories.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

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

You can draw inspiration from anything. If you’re a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you’re casually talking to says something that makes you so mad – you can create an entire scenario around that.

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend’s griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother’s happiness.

I make decisions all day, so it’s nice for a woman like me to go to dinner and have the man take the menu and say, ‚Let me order.‘ Other women would be offended by that, but I’m like, ‚Good. Because I can’t make one more decision today.‘ I want someone to rub my feet without being asked.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‚understand‘ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

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.

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.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.

I don’t have time to be lonely. And I get fearful of relationships because I feel guilty about wanting someone to be completely faithful and loyal, when I can’t even give them 10 percent of the attention that they need. It’s just the reality of my time, my life, my schedule.

Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night’s date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn’t think of looking at another woman.

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

You can’t have it all, all at once. Who – man or woman – has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

If a man’s character is to be abused there’s nobody like a relative to do the business.

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

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

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.

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it’s time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.

There’s a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more.

Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

I’m not denyin‘ the women are foolish. God Almighty made ‚em to match the men.

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

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it’s cool that happens.

True friends stab you in the front.

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

Understanding is a two-way street.

Women don’t try to use me.

When the people you love are gone, you’re alone.

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

Ever since I dated a woman, I know what it is to grab a curve on a woman’s body. Skinny’s not fine when the lights are low.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

Some people love so hard that they can’t control those emotions when they’re at their deepest point.

Great loves too must be endured.

Arthur Miller wouldn’t have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.

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

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

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

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

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.

One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what’s really happening to me, even if it’s a tough pill to swallow for people around me… I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.