Love is a serious mental disease.

The uncertainty of parenting can bring up feelings in us that range from frustration to terror.

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

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.

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

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

Love… it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

They died hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

I knew through the surgeries that he was on my side and that this wasn’t something where I was gonna feel less of a woman, because my husband wasn’t gonna let that happen.

When you face a ‚performance‘ that might provoke the ‚I’m scared‘ response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It’s more fun than ‚Dancing with the Stars!‘

There’s certainly a side of me that isn’t completely… sane. Or completely ‚even‘ all the time. We all have our dark sides.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

Politics doesn’t make strange bedfellows – marriage does.

We are not actually equal – humanity – if we are not allowed to freely love one another.

People have so much going on in their heads. I’m like, If you could write a song, you’d feel so much better!

If you’re serious, you really understand that it’s important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you’re the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you’re funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

If I feel anxious every time someone is staring at me, well, I can’t control what they stare at, but my reaction is, I’m just not going to go outside the house. I’m going to stay in and chill. And when I do go out, I understand what comes along with that.

I love performing, you know, because, like I say, I’m a ham for this stuff.

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone’s singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person. That’s the only way I can find an explanation for why 55,000 people would want to come see me sing.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

With my childhood, it’s a wonder I’m not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.

‚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.

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

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

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man’s actions.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

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

You can be obsessed with the bad things people say and the good things; either way, you’re obsessed with yourself, and I’m not – you can become unhinged so easily.

Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything.

You know what, I’m very attracted to someone who makes me laugh and is that charming. Really, I could be charmed by anyone. I’m just a sucker for somebody that is charming.

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

There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.

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.

Before you start a goal – let’s take care of our insecurities because they are going to surface when you put yourself in the crucible and you’re suffering.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

When you find a guy who is powerful, a big father figure, you latch onto him immediately.

I have no hostility to nature, but a child’s love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

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

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

Nine men in ten are would be suicides.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

I’ve never been a boyfriend kind of girl.

My mother fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56. She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold them in her arms. But my other children will never have the chance to know her and experience how loving and gracious she was.