In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged.

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

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.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.

No man wants to settle down. It happens. Eventually you’re going to bump into somebody that makes you go, ‚Hmm, I don’t mind seeing this person every day.‘

Falsehood is a perennial spring.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

I’d love to date somebody cool, fun, funny.

Obviously, you go through a lot of emotional turmoil in a divorce.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

Young love is wild and outrageous, laughing at moderation and blinding us to common sense.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

To be social is to be forgiving.

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

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

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

Logically, harmony must come from the heart… Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.

One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.

My friends, there are no friends.

I haven’t had that one great love, which is good. I don’t want that to be in the past – I want it to be in the future.

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

I’m not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I’m the girl who rarely has a boyfriend.

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Everything is clearer when you’re in love.

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

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Most of the people that I deal with are human. So I’ve had a lot of experience with that.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

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

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.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I’ve never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line’s always been really blurred for me. I’ll hang out with them after the show. I’ll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I’ll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes.