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

Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish.

When I get married, it’ll be no secret.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it’s a better way of telling the stories.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

To be able to throw one’s self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman’s smile – that is happiness.

Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.

The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they’re gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you’re going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.

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.

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.

When I worked on a magazine, I learned that there are many, many writers writing that can’t write at all; and they keep on writing all the cliches and bromides and 1890 plots, and poems about Spring and poems about Love, and poems they think are modern because they are done in slang or staccato style, or written with all the ‚i’s‘ small.

Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.

Don’t get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

My mother loved children – she would have given anything if I had been one.

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.

There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

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

It’s fun to be hopelessly in love. It’s dangerous, but it’s fun.

No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

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

People were saying that David Geffen and I had gotten married and it just blew me away. Not that they thought I was gay, but that they thought I could land a guy that hot.

Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.

The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.

I used to take my short stories to girls‘ homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?

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

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Driving up the value of the advertising is a big commitment for Microsoft.

If people wonder, yes, Hillary Clinton is my friend. She has been a friend to me and Barack and Malia and Sasha, and Bill and Chelsea have been embracing and supportive from the very day my husband took the oath of office.

It was weird to be married; you kind of lose your identity. You’re suddenly somebody’s wife. And you’re like, ‚Oh, I’m half of a couple now. I’ve lost me.‘

I know I’m talented, but I wasn’t put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but it’s not where it begins and ends.

I’ve got a crush on my backing singer.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

Part of our tradition as black women is that we are universalists. Black children, yellow children, red children, brown children, that is the black woman’s normal, day-to-day relationship. In my family alone, we are about four different colors.

Never accept a drink from a urologist.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.

If someone lies, well, you had a choice to trust that person or not. I think the way my father raised me, well, he trusted everybody. And that worked for him.

I’m not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

Logically, harmony must come from the heart… Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.

My advice is this. For Christ’s sake, don’t write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 years old, because the kids who read who are 12 years old are reading books for adults. I read all of the James Bond books when I was about 11, which was approximately the right time to read James Bond books.

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.

I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.

Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.

It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.

People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like – that’s a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author’s world.