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.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up.

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.

For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

There’s no substitute for the practice of meditation.

I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it’s my mind.

When people say ‚marriage‘ to me… It’s always a means to an end. Everyone’s so in a rush to define the relationship.

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

I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It’s not true that I’m happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

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.

The only thing that relaxes me is archery. That’s why I have to have apartments with gardens.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

I only change things where I know about a situation. I’d never change just for change.

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.

I worked with someone who told me they’d never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

If I love you, I show you I love you every day. Little things, big things.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.

Part of me feels you can’t say you were truly in love if it didn’t last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that’s when I’ll know it’s real – because it lasted.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

In the real world, children love me.

We’re not like robots. God promises to guide us through the Holy Spirit, but He gives us the freedom to make our own decisions.

‚The Story of Us‘ is about running into someone I had been in a relationship with at an awards show, and we were seated a few seats away from each other. I just wanted to say to him, ‚Is this killing you? Because it’s killing me.‘ But I didn’t. Because I couldn’t. Because we both had these silent shields up.

Men who think that a woman’s past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

Every man’s reputation proceeds from those of his own household.

Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can’t help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won’t want to worry.

Women. They are a complete mystery.

I’ve noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it’s far enough in the future.

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you’re listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.

Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues – of my comrades in the movement – who had decided in their wisdom to use me for the purpose of focusing the attention of the country and the international community on me.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that’s when I think life is over.

Men want to make women happy.

Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you’re feeling bad, you just look at the cats, you’ll feel better because they know that everything is just as it is. There’s nothing to get excited about. They just know. They’re saviours.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

I don’t have a type. I don’t have a specific kind of human being. It’s just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I’ve ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.

To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.

Engage your brain before you engage your weapon.

Great loves too must be endured.

Love is a serious mental disease.

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

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.