I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone’s wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

The reason I talk to myself is that I’m the only one whose answers I accept.

My father wasn’t a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher – one of those Victorians, hard as iron – but my dad was tough enough.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back.

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

I’m an introvert somewhat. There could be a room full of people, I’ll go stand in the corner.

One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.

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

I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you – gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, ‚Did you sleep good?‘ I said ‚No, I made a few mistakes.‘

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

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.

I don’t like being alone.

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn’t enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

I made bad decisions. I’m not denying that I made bad decisions.

Agape, the love of each one of us for the other, from the closest to the furthest, is in fact the only way that Jesus has given us to find the way of salvation and of the Beatitudes.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

My lighter, more superficial side will always steal a march on the deeper side and therefore always win. You can’t imagine how often I’ve tried to push away this Anne, which is only half of what is known as Anne – to beat her down, hide her.

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

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.

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner’s inquest.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

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?

I’ve married somebody who I knew for 14 years. So, I’m just living with a friend. All through my ups and downs in football, from winning the I-League to losing the ISL final, she has been a source of great support.

Love is a state of being.

We’re always looking over our shoulders, ‚what they will think, what the press will think, what will this one – am I making the right career move?‘ When you’re young you have to do all that to survive, I suppose.

In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

The Army will take its lessons learned. They’re excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.

We want justice, but at the same time, we gotta love and come together and bring unity, and I feel it’s gonna happen.

When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.

I don’t see the point of doing an interview unless you’re going to share the things you learn in life and the mistakes you make. So to admit that I’m extremely human and have done some dark things I don’t think makes me unusual or unusually dark. I think it actually is the right thing to do, and I’d like to think it’s the nice thing to do.

Marriage is scary to me, man.

Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

I’m married. My wife, Stella – a beautiful woman. She’s brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom.

Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn’t give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.

It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

I can’t tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I’ve got a good bead on myself.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

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

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

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

To be social is to be forgiving.

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.

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