I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

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.

Our focus needs to be less on what our legacy’s going to be or how we can control each other and more how we can give to each other.

I miss people. I miss going anywhere and meeting a random person and saying ‚Hi‘ and having a conversation about life. I love people.

To be clear: we have fights and problems like any other couple.

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.‘

We want an Afghanistan that is shaped by the dreams of the great Afghan people, not by irrational fears and overreaching ambitions of others.

I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.

It seemed like a very small possibility for me to become an artist. I didn’t have the need to be on the stage; I didn’t feel the need to be heard. I just needed to write.

Wives are people who feel they don’t dance enough.

I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

I still consider it a summer job, though. So, I try to maintain that summer job as long as I can. But it’s exciting to be able to have the opportunity to do things I always dreamed of as a kid.

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

You can’t have it all, all at once. Who – man or woman – has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

My husband says I look like a Q-tip.

Women – always in trouble with them, but can’t live without them.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

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.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it’s cool that happens.

Fantasy is uni-age. You can start it in the creche, and it follows you to death.

Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.

I’m the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that’s horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it.

I really miss being able to blend in with people.

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

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.

Eating is so intimate. It’s very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you’re inviting a person into your life.

For me, it’s about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It’s where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that’s very important to me.

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

I have a very good family. I’m very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It’s one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.

Love can do much, but duty more.

Keeping score is for games, not friendships.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

I’ve had moments when I’ve thought about somebody, picked up the phone to call them and they are on the line already, and I think that maybe there’s some vibration, some connection.

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged.

All I ever wanted to do with my life was own a little house. I did that way back with ‚Rocky,‘ so now everything I do is just icing on the cake.

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

Then, when I’m in these relationships with people who are also creative, or creative in their own way, what happens is the attraction is initially there and it’s all unicorns and rainbows. And then they hate me.

The public doesn’t mind people living together without being married, providing they don’t overdo it.

It’s hard for anybody who’s been with me not to feel starved for affection when I’m making love to my ideas. Maybe it’s not meant for me to settle down and be married.

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

I thank God I’m myself and for the life I’m given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.

We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

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

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

We all have possibilities we don’t know about. We can do things we don’t even dream we can do.

I’ve had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I’ve often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.

A woman can’t be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can’t do it by herself.