I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women… no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

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.

It isn’t necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.

I think there’s more women that watch me than men, but I don’t look at myself as just a minister to women. My ministry began that way, but I really feel like the Word of God is for everybody.

The fact is: It’s true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored with it.

No matter how beautiful a woman might be, you’re always threatened by certain… You’re always threatened by other women, period.

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

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

God tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone’s sexual preferences are or if they’re black, brown or purple.

I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.

I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

The immigration issue is, I recognize, one that generates a lot of passion, but it does not make sense for us to want to push talent out.

A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend – and he’s a priest.

You pay a certain penalty for going your own way. A lot of people think you’re nuts, and you’re not as popular with girls as you should be.

I will never be happy without having someone. Going to sleep alone kills me.

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

I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.

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.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

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

Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

Taylor Swift’s audience can listen to me, but so can the street kids. I want to touch it all.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

There’s only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I’ll get married again.

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

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

Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.

Everyone does things differently on offense. Everyone’s goal is to score points.

There are many levels of Christianity. There are many notions about God. To believe that God is a person is just one of the notions of God that you can find in Christianity. So, we should not say that there is one Christianity. There are many Christianities.

The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.

Really showing love requires more than just words.

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

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

Here’s what I’ve learned about deal-breakers. If you have enough natural chemistry with someone, you overlook every single thing that you said would break the deal.

I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.

Within one’s own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.

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

Don’t get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.

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

I don’t know what’s better gettin‘ laid or gettin‘ paid.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

If a child from an Amazonian hunter-gatherer tribe comes to Boston, is raised in Boston, that child will be indistinguishable in language capacities from my children growing up here, and vice versa.

My wife has about everything I can think of.

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.

I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.