I want someone who can trust that my big hands are going to take care of them.

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.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.

There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls, but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd. Of course, I expect this, but the knife still cuts.

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.

General consultant to mankind.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

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.

Brad was a huge surprise to me. I think we were both the last two people who were looking for a relationship. I certainly wasn’t. I was quite content to be a single mom with Mad.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

For me, one of the toughest things about Valentine’s Day is that it gets geared up as the day to profess your love. See, T-E-S-T – that’s a bad word that doesn’t go with L-O-V-E.

I think we all change each other’s paths. I don’t know which law idea that is in physics, but I don’t think any of us can live without affecting one another.

I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone’s inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.

You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.

Of course you can’t ‚trust‘ what people tell you on the web anymore than you can ‚trust‘ what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restaurants. Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

You learn that there’s no right way to do it, no wrong way to do it. It’s just what you feel comfortable with, to trust that, and don’t let anybody box you in to a certain style of parenting or make you feel a certain way about what your kids do.

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

I’ve never had a divorce, but I’ve seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can’t write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I’m able to kind of express it, or their joy.

MySpace is my wife… Facebook is my mistress.

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

People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I’ll give you an example; I don’t read what’s handed to me. People say, ‚Here, here’s your speech, or here’s an idea for a speech.‘ They’re changed. Trust me.

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds, they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material.

When people are around us, they should leave better off than they were previously. Rather than feeling discouraged or defeated, people should feel challenged and inspired after spending any time with you and me.

People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.

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.

So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.

Your friend is your needs answered.

All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.

Everything God tells us to do is for our good. Whether it’s direction you get in His Word or something He’s specifically put in your heart for your situation in life, the absolute best thing you can ever do is obey Him promptly and completely.

If I wouldn’t have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

With all the… success that I’ve been lucky enough to get? That doesn’t happen unless the home life is solid.

You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred.

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

Never elated when someone’s oppressed, never dejected when another one’s blessed.

I have an urge to communicate. I think I’m a change from what it would be like dating a normal guy who doesn’t talk too much.

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.

You can’t be in love with a Google search.

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

I’m more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.

All things considered, there’s nobody better for children than parents.

Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life.

Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

Obviously, you go through a lot of emotional turmoil in a divorce.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

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.

We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘

That’s what I do this for, to secure my family’s future. I don’t care about anything else. I’m able to spoil people, and that’s the best thing.

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

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

So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you – and fight alongside you – until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.

I never promise anything. I don’t promise anything to my mum. I don’t promise anything to the supporters.