I’m married to an Italian woman, and I used to love cooking Italian at home, because it’s one-pot cooking. But my wife does not approve of my Italian cooking.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

I’ve learned that we all change constantly. It’s rare to find that person who is growing with you in the same way at the same time, who encourages you to grow.

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

Men and women do think differently, and frankly, we don’t understand each other. Not at all! But that’s what makes relationships so amazing.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.

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

In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that’s called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

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.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

I think the perfection of love is that it’s not perfect.

Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.

You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s.

Speak low, if you speak love.

I rely on other people every day of my life.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

Take my wife… Please!

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

My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that’s not so bad; but New York City?

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

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

The Bible is clear – God’s definition of marriage is between a man and a woman.

He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.

It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

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

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

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

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

When you think about it, three of our biggest financial decisions in life are made at times of peak emotional excitement: deciding to get married, buying a home, and having kids.

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

‚The Story of Us‘ is about running into someone I had been in a relationship with at an awards show, and we were seated a few seats away from each other. I just wanted to say to him, ‚Is this killing you? Because it’s killing me.‘ But I didn’t. Because I couldn’t. Because we both had these silent shields up.

Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.

I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don’t know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.

I don’t have time to be lonely. And I get fearful of relationships because I feel guilty about wanting someone to be completely faithful and loyal, when I can’t even give them 10 percent of the attention that they need. It’s just the reality of my time, my life, my schedule.

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.

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.

Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.

You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there’s nothing really to talk about.

My mother did not like children.

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

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I’ve had. And now that I’m in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won’t be half as much anger as there was.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

I know love is the answer.

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone’s wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

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

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.