I rely on other people every day of my life.

Our body is dependant on Heaven and Heaven on the Spirit.

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

I am a bit of a solitude person – a solitary personality. I like being on my own. I don’t have any major friendships or relationships with people.

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.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

You bring children into the world. You love them with heart and soul.

One of life’s terrible truths is that women like guys who seem to know what they’re doing.

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

I have a big gay and lesbian following and they’ve been very loyal and kind to me.

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

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.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

Let it be our delight to find our society in the circle of which Jesus is the center, and let us make those our friends who are the friends of Jesus.

When people get married young, you don’t really understand the true definition of marriage.

I’ve got incredible support from my wife and family and people around me. I’ve got great people around me who handle anything on the outside, business-wise, who help free me up to create in my job.

If I’d married someone in show business, there’d be too much competition.

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

My mami and papi love my music. They’re always listening to the radio waiting for one of my songs to come on. And when it does, they turn up the volume – and turn it back down when it’s over.

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

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

Ranking among the greatest Christmas movie classics, ‚It’s a Wonderful Life‘ tells a beautiful story about the priceless value of relationships.

And know that I am with you always; yes, to the end of time.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

I knew through the surgeries that he was on my side and that this wasn’t something where I was gonna feel less of a woman, because my husband wasn’t gonna let that happen.

Wealthy men can’t live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.

Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.

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

We’re so immaturely cynical as a culture. We’re not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they’re stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another.

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

There are too many people that depend on me. I’m too obligated. I’m in too far to get out.

Life’s too short to deal with other people’s insecurities.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

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.

Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

There are no rules when it comes to love.

What the heck is true love? I remember feeling, back when I was 12 and ‚going‘ with this girl, ‚Is this true love?‘

When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That’s one of the great feelings – to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.

All men hate the nagging.

It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

I think, a lot of times when you meet someone, you feel like you need to appear like you’re not interested in them so that they’ll be more interested in you. But what happens when you start showing him that you actually like him? What’s he gonna do then? Play the tape forward; how do you keep a guy like that? I don’t want to sign up for that.

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or ‚our‘ country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

You can draw inspiration from anything. If you’re a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you’re casually talking to says something that makes you so mad – you can create an entire scenario around that.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

I think there are things that are based in your own dealings with someone that is a personal dealing, not a public dealing. Because you have personal experiences.

Sucking up to the biggies won’t get us anywhere.

We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray.

Men and women do think differently, and frankly, we don’t understand each other. Not at all! But that’s what makes relationships so amazing.

‚Two Voices,‘ from my album with Peter Schwalm, is an intact dream-poem. I awoke one night with an image of a piece of paper and all the words of the poem written on it, so I just blundered down to the kitchen table and ‚copied it out.‘

If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‚I’ll buy a million dollars‘ worth of love.‘ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

Intimates are predestined.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

I am confident that partnering my Dollywood Company with a great company like Gaylord will create something truly special.