I’ve never had a dislike for men. I’ve been badly treated by some. But I’ve been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.

It’s not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.

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.

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

There are two kinds of people in this world. ‚I‘ people and ‚we‘ people. I’ve always tried to be a ‚we‘ person.

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

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

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

All men hate the nagging.

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

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

If I wouldn’t have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

Love and desire are the spirit’s wings to great deeds.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

The fame isn’t important to me. It’s a blessing to have. Having so many people that support me, that love me and listen to my music, is beautiful.

My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.

Where there is love there is life.

If a man’s character is to be abused there’s nobody like a relative to do the business.

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.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

I want someone who can trust that my big hands are going to take care of them.

I’m not a real movie star. I’ve still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it – and sometimes three.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

I don’t want enemies. I want friends, and I want them in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and loving whoever they want to.

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

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.

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don’t mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That’s not power. That’s just corruption.

I think there are things that are based in your own dealings with someone that is a personal dealing, not a public dealing. Because you have personal experiences.

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

I’m not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.

I’ve never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I’ve only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.

Aviation offered such fun as crossing the continent in planes large and small, trying the whirling rotors of an autogiro, making record flights. With these activities came opportunity to know women everywhere who shared my conviction that there is so much women can do in the modern world and should be permitted to do irrespective of their sex.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

But men must know, that in this theatre of man’s life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

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

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.

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

Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

I wouldn’t say that anyone in fashion is on my side. I don’t think there’s anyone on my side.