I’m sick of the tabloids‘ saying I obsess over guys. Why would you obsess over guys? They don’t like it.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

Really showing love requires more than just words.

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

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

I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.

You know what, I’m very attracted to someone who makes me laugh and is that charming. Really, I could be charmed by anyone. I’m just a sucker for somebody that is charming.

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

A friend is nothing but a known enemy.

He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.

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.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

Few are drawn to the person whom others avoid and neglect; people gather around those who have already attracted interest.

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

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

If you don’t stand your ground, then all that happens is people push you backwards.

When I think of the love I feel for each member of our family, I sense, to a slight degree, the love that our Heavenly Father bears for His children.

It has been hard for me to find it, but I have found love.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

Some people love so hard that they can’t control those emotions when they’re at their deepest point.

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.

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

I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

Funny is the world I live in. You’re funny, I’m interested. You’re not funny, I’m not interested.

I’m just a friendly person; that runs in my family.

I’m very secure about my talents and about who I am.

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.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

Don’t ever play yourself.

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.

You have to just accept your body. You may not love it all the way, but you just have to be comfortable with it, comfortable with knowing that that’s your body.

There was one incident at a movie theater where my girl got mad at these guys who were talking behind us. I never looked back there, but she was like, ‚Will you all just shut up!‘ And I just got up and moved three rows in front. She was like, ‚What are you doing?!‘ I was like, ‚You better get up here! I don’t play the fighting games.‘

Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.

Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that’s very important for good health.

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.

Forty is when you actually begin even deserving to be on stage telling people what you think.

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

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.

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.

My wife thinks she’s better than me at puzzles. I haven’t given in on that one yet.

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it’s with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

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.

My wife has about everything I can think of.

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

I have never been bewildered for long in any fight with our enemies – I was Armed with Insight.

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.

A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

I see myself as the best footballer in the world. If you don’t believe you are the best, then you will never achieve all that you are capable of.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Be proud to be Latino and never lose that pride!

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.