In married life three is company and two none.

People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

I’m pretty sure I don’t have any songs that are about how much I love someone. They’re all either about, like, ‚I hate you,‘ or ‚You make me hate me.‘

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

My mother did not like children.

But there is a difference between cozying up to power and being close to power.

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

There is no such thing as a lovers‘ oath.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn’t be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.

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

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

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

Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.

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

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.

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

Single life is so overrated.

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.

I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Remember, it’s as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

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.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

I don’t have the best track record with quotes.

If you can’t convince them, confuse them.

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people’s happiness.

Do not rebuke mockers, or they will hate you; rebuke the wise, and they will love you.

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?

Sometimes you can’t prioritise family and you feel guilty.

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.

Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can’t ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment’s notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow – that’s vulnerability.

Love is a state of being.

‚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.

To me, if you’re trying to impress a girl, get a date, they’re gonna like that more because you’re a confident guy. That’s what it comes down to.

I’ve got a crush on my backing singer.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.

It is better to be deceived by one’s friends than to deceive them.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

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.

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.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

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