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

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

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Love is the one wild card.

A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether there is any love for the church in the hearts of those who pay so much attention to the scandals.

When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it’s been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can’t stop thinking about.

I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.

Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since, when death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Be nice to your children. After all, they are going to choose your nursing home.

If you wished to be loved, love.

Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.

Have you ever asked yourselves what you are going to do when you grow up? In all likelihood you will get married, and before you know where you are, you will be mothers and fathers; and you will then be tied to a job, or to the kitchen, in which you will gradually wither away. Is that all that your life is going to be?

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

What keeps me motivated is love and passion.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

No, we don’t own our children. Our parental privilege is to love them, to lead them, and to let them go.

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

My mother was a full-time mother. She didn’t have much of her own career, her own life, her own experiences… everything was for her children. I will never be as good a mother as she was. She was just grace incarnate. She was the most generous, loving – she’s better than me.

I’m the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren’t no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn’t know about them.

I had this child, and it destroyed my family.

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

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

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

I never fall in love.

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

That is what fame is, isn’t it? To get the world to fall in love with you.

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

I have an immense amount of respect for acting. I’ve always loved movies and was always fascinated by movie-making. But to become an actor, I wanted to commit myself.

My wife and I don’t compete. We know each other’s preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That’s what friends do.

My mother was and will always remain my greatest hero.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss.

If I made a commitment, I stood by that commitment – and try to make it real. Because when you become leaders, the most important thing you have is your word, your trust. That’s where respect comes from.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I’m not leading them to some false God or something like that.

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn’t enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

My wife is already in Heaven.

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

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.

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

If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.

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.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

My experiences in life are getting bigger and better. The more stuff I do, the more stuff I talk about – having kids, traveling, going through relationship problems, dealing with things in my own family. All that stuff builds character.