I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don’t know if it’s possible forever and ever.

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.

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.

What is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.

My fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids‘ reaction to that divorce.

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It’s one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who’ll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you’re in the wrong house, that’s what it means.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.

There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet.

In one day, I have times where I’m feeling great, I feel like I love my life, and then 2:30 rolls around and I’m the angriest man alive. My wife sees it.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

I think women want freedom. They want to be empowered. They want hope. They want love; they want all the things that I want, and I’m not afraid to say those things and act on them, and I think that’s why they identify with me.

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

My wife has about everything I can think of.

I think ‚The Color Purple‘ is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe.

Love is only one of many passions.

If you get down and quarell everyday, you’re saying prayers to the devil, I say.

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

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

Know your worth! People always act like they’re doing more for you than you’re doing for them.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

There’s nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It’s a thing no married man knows anything about.

Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn’t be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they’re already asleep.

If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn’t make your house look any better.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, ‚I love you.‘

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

However weak we are, however poor, however little our faith, or however small our grace may be, our names are still written on His heart; nor shall we lose our share in Jesus‘ love.

God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we’re small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.

They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.

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.

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

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

We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.

I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman’s skillet and the man’s ax-helve.

Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.

Love is trembling happiness.

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

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

As a father and now a grandfather to three wonderful grandchildren, I know how magical the first year of a child’s life is but also how much hard work it takes. Being able to spend as much time as possible with your loved ones is absolutely vital, especially early on.

One can never know for sure what a deserted area looks like.

No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don’t just want to possess it, it will find you.

Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.

Marriage is scary to me, man.

I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

Mostly, my flying has been solo, but the preparation for it wasn’t. Without my husband’s help and encouragement, I could not have attempted what I have. Ours has been a contented and reasonable partnership, he with his solo jobs and I with mine. But always with work and play together, conducted under a satisfactory system of dual control.

Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: ‚This is my country.‘

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.