I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.

Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

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.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

Men exist for the sake of one another.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

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.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

Marriage is scary to me, man.

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

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

My wife and I love each other very much.

The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I’m willing to show you. In you, it’s courage and daring. In me, it’s weakness.

‚Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

I want to be a man who is truthful and who won’t let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, ‚Here I am. This is me.‘ I feel there’s something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

To get a hold on boys you must be their friend.

Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.

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

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

I got a lot of support from my parents. That’s the one thing I always appreciated. They didn’t tell me I was being stupid; they told me I was being funny.

I can’t deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you.

It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

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

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

Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

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.

Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I’ve never been in love before – I don’t really know? I think I have. I guess it’s subjective in that way.

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

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.

I’ve had moments when I’ve thought about somebody, picked up the phone to call them and they are on the line already, and I think that maybe there’s some vibration, some connection.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

The relationship to one’s fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one’s striving.

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

Friend, there’s no greater investment in life than in being a people builder. Relationships are more important than our accomplishments.

I’ve found that men I’ve dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I’ve found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren’t competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been… challenging.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

Dividers seek to make themselves look or feel better by making others feel worse. They damage relationships, fracture teams and organizations, and create havoc in people’s lives.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

It’s hard for anybody who’s been with me not to feel starved for affection when I’m making love to my ideas. Maybe it’s not meant for me to settle down and be married.

Alimony – the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.

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

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.

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

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.

I never fall in love.

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

I think I have to trust that you end up with the person you’re supposed to end up with, and that everything in between is there to teach you stuff.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.