I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

I love people talking about me; I love anybody just looking at me.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

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.

Everybody loves you when you’re six foot in the ground.

Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?

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

There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving – by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

I’m more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

There’s a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It’s deceptive because when you have pride, you’re usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn’t sell well.

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

I always wanted a great love affair: something that feels big and full, really honest, and enough. No moment should feel slight, false, or a little off. For me, it had to be everything.

When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own.

There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

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.

I spend a lot of time just, you know, with my girlfriend and my dog. And I mean, we don’t have a lot of furniture in our house, so it’s really simple. And we’re trying to build products for everyone in the world, right. And you don’t want to get isolated to do that.

You can’t be in love with a Google search.

A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.

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?

Man’s enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.

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.

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there’s too much fraternizing with the enemy.

Barack knows the American Dream because he’s lived it, and he wants everyone in this country to have that same opportunity, no matter who we are or where we’re from or what we look like or who we love.

I would be married, but I’d have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

I married my best friend that happens to be a girl.

Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.

No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they’re pretty, even if they aren’t.

Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can’t be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

We can’t all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

Speak low, if you speak love.

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.

The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

I think I have a certain respect for people, you know. And I guess a lot of times I expect that respect to go both ways.

Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

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

Fill the earth with your songs of gratitude.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

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