If you like a person you say ‚let’s go into business together.‘ Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

If I have cash and I can’t figure a way to put it into real estate or my business, I hold it in gold and silver.

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

I spend a lot of time just, you know, with my girlfriend and my dog. And I mean, we don’t have a lot of furniture in our house, so it’s really simple. And we’re trying to build products for everyone in the world, right. And you don’t want to get isolated to do that.

Having the support from everyone, the bosses, whoever within the team, definitely makes it much easier for me as a driver.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

Trying to meet new women, it’s always a little more difficult as opposed to calling somebody I knew that’s single and trying to rebuild that connection.

I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

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.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

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

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

I used to sing songs and write with my uncle, Bill Owens.

Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

Writing a song is so personal. You have to have trust in someone you’re working with; otherwise, you’re not gonna come out with something that’s really you.

No one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert by yourself, but you are related. You cannot escape from that absolute fact. You cannot exist in isolation.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we’ll fail, and sometimes we’ll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you’ll find support.

I wouldn’t say that anyone in fashion is on my side. I don’t think there’s anyone on my side.

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.

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.

Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can’t ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment’s notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow – that’s vulnerability.

I would be married, but I’d have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.

Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.

Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.

I’m trying my best to keep up with all this new technology, and I surround myself with all these wonderful people that are in the know and kind of help me out with all that.

I bought a company in the mid-’90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I’ve made lots of dumb decisions. That’s part of the game.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what’s really happening to me, even if it’s a tough pill to swallow for people around me… I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

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

It’s hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don’t always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.

If two smart, intelligent, clever guys sit together on a table, and you both want the same, where can be the problem? We all want to be successful.

If you cry over a guy, then your friends can’t date him. It can’t even be considered.

When written in Chinese, the word ‚crisis‘ is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

If you don’t understand the details of your business you are going to fail.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

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

A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.

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

When people say ‚marriage‘ to me… It’s always a means to an end. Everyone’s so in a rush to define the relationship.

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.

It’s so much easier to like people, and to let people in, to trust them until they prove that you should do otherwise. The alternative is being an iceberg.