I’m not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love – first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

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

Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.

I’ve been careful in love. I’ve been careless in love. And I’ve had adventures I wouldn’t trade for anything.

I’m a human being and I fall in love and sometimes I don’t have control of every situation.

We never love a person, but only qualities.

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

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

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we’re both fortunate in the fact that we think we married above ourselves.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

I met my husband before I became a star, and he doesn’t care about any of it.

Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.

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

You can draw inspiration from anything. If you’re a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you’re casually talking to says something that makes you so mad – you can create an entire scenario around that.

I love to flirt, and I’ve never met a man I didn’t like.

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

It’s true that I’ve never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn’t they’d be married too.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

Don’t ever call a guy first. The thing they want the most is whatever they can’t have. It sounds really juvenile, but it works.

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.

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

I mean, families are weird.

The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

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.

Men want to make women happy.

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

Everybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds, they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

I’m more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I’m writing about New York.

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.

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

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

What the heck is true love? I remember feeling, back when I was 12 and ‚going‘ with this girl, ‚Is this true love?‘

I don’t have a type. I don’t have a specific kind of human being. It’s just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I’ve ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.

Those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

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

Only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.