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.

For me, one of the toughest things about Valentine’s Day is that it gets geared up as the day to profess your love. See, T-E-S-T – that’s a bad word that doesn’t go with L-O-V-E.

The more I grow in popularity, the lonelier it gets. Because you don’t really know me. You just know this part of me. You fell in love with that. But it’s way more intricate than what meets the surface.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.

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

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

The second time around, I’ll understand that, as a husband, my wife doesn’t care about my opinions. I just need to tell her the things that will continue to help me stack the brownie points.

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

The average Hollywood film star’s ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

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

I took the vow of celibacy in 1906. I had not shared my thoughts with my wife until then, but only consulted her at the time of making the vow. She had no objection.

Understanding is a two-way street.

If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.

I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.

I worked with someone who told me they’d never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.

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.

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.

Fame may go by and – so long, I’ve had you.

Trying to meet new women, it’s always a little more difficult as opposed to calling somebody I knew that’s single and trying to rebuild that connection.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

I’m drawn to bad romances.

To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.

I’ve found that men I’ve dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I’ve found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren’t competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been… challenging.

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

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

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

It is necessary to fall in love… if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

I’m married. My wife, Stella – a beautiful woman. She’s brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom.

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother – but… when she became our child, the affection came.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

If you cry over a guy, then your friends can’t date him. It can’t even be considered.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

I’ll tell you one thing, since I’m married, single people look absolutely ridiculous to me.

I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.

President Assad, I worked with. I know him reasonably well, met with him a few times, and he’s a liar.

I’ve seen my friends take someone back after they’ve cheated because they fit perfectly.

We all die, we all get sick, we all feel hunger and lust and pain, and therefore human life is consistent from one generation to the other. We all – most of us, anyway – want connections with other people and spend our lives looking for them.

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

I used to take my short stories to girls‘ homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?

One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.

I’ve laid my friends bare.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

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

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don’t know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.

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.

Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.

I think everyone should be with who they love.

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

We do not judge the people we love.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

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

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.