Like associates with like.

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

Regarding marriage, it – somehow, it didn’t happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.

My friends, there are no friends.

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

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.

Patience is key for getting over a breakup. That, and trailing off your interaction after the breakup.

I’m the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that’s horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it.

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.

Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

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 moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken. More: You have ceded them power.

We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.

It’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

I want to be a man who is truthful and who won’t let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, ‚Here I am. This is me.‘ I feel there’s something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.

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

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

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.

There’s nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It’s a thing no married man knows anything about.

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

I’ve been careful in love. I’ve been careless in love. And I’ve had adventures I wouldn’t trade for anything.

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.

Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It’s the magic sauce.

It’s hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don’t always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

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

Is it not important to find out how to listen not only to what is being said but to everything – to the noise in the streets, to the chatter of birds, to the noise of the tramcar, to the restless sea, to the voice of your husband, to your wife, to your friends, to the cry of a baby?

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

I’ve had no contact with my daughter for years. That’s her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don’t want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.

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.

We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

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

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

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

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

It’s not possible to stop love.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.

Love is trembling happiness.

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or ‚our‘ country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.