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.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

I don’t hate women – they just sometimes make me mad.

Country radio is much more like a family than any other group of people that I’ve met.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.

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

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy.

In a lot of ways, success is much harder than I thought it would be. I figured that you’d get here and then everything would be happily ever after. But, it’s hard work, almost harder once you’re successful because you’ve got to maintain it.

There are always people always asking you for something. But I feel like I have a foundation. I have a supporting cast where it doesn’t bother me too much.

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin‘ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

Regarding marriage, it – somehow, it didn’t happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.

I can imagine it’s hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn’t know.

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

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that’s called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.

I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

My father wasn’t a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher – one of those Victorians, hard as iron – but my dad was tough enough.

What good am I? I can’t have kids. I can’t cook. I’ve been divorced three times. Who would want me?

They do not love that do not show their love.

I’d love to date somebody cool, fun, funny.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.

You can’t have a relationship with a device whose limits are unknown to you, because without limits, it keeps becoming something else.

House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad.

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

Here’s what I’ve learned about deal-breakers. If you have enough natural chemistry with someone, you overlook every single thing that you said would break the deal.

Any man who doesn’t love his mama can’t be no friend of mine.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure – the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.

I’ve been careful in love. I’ve been careless in love. And I’ve had adventures I wouldn’t trade for anything.

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‚understand‘ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

It’s not possible to stop love.

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone’s wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.

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

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

Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.

I don’t compare myself to anyone else; I don’t make comments about anyone else because they do what feels right for them, and that’s okay by me.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

It’s good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.