Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

Stories lie deep in our souls. Stories lie so deep at the bottom of our hearts that they can bring people together on the deepest level. When I write a novel, I go into such depths.

If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.

As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.

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

A man should never neglect his family for business.

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

My dad was never married. He was kind of a rolling stone. But he was never disrespectful. At the same time, even though he had women in his life when I was a kid, there wasn’t any consistency.

I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals.

When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection, love is born.

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

He knows my limitations and where I’m a good wife and a good mom.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

I’m definitely gaining new fans, and that’s the key of any success… gain more love.

Men want to make women happy.

The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.

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

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

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

The only answer to fear is faith in God, knowing He loves you unconditionally and individually.

It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.

I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations.

I can imagine it’s hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn’t know.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.

I love food.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.

All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they’re gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you’re going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.

The intention and outcome of vulnerability is trust, intimacy and connection. The outcome of oversharing is distrust, disconnection – and usually a little judgment.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

Love is an interesting thing.

Men’s vows are women’s traitors!

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it’s been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can’t stop thinking about.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

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

I love New York. I’m a guy for whom a New York accent is a comforting thing.

Know your worth! People always act like they’re doing more for you than you’re doing for them.

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

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

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.

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.

A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend’s griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother’s happiness.

I never promise anything. I don’t promise anything to my mum. I don’t promise anything to the supporters.

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.

I thank God I’m myself and for the life I’m given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.

To me, if you’re trying to impress a girl, get a date, they’re gonna like that more because you’re a confident guy. That’s what it comes down to.

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

Like associates with like.

Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.