Love is the one wild card.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure – the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

If women were particular about men’s characters, they would never get married at all.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

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

The reason children accept discipline from their parents is because they know their parents love them.

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.

In order to have friends, you must first be one.

I’m not denyin‘ the women are foolish. God Almighty made ‚em to match the men.

Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

If I’m not in love, if I’m not with a long-term companion, I cannot be happy.

I listen to music that is of our time and I just get angry.

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they’re already asleep.

I’m a songwriter. Everything affects me.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

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

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

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.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

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.

When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.

Your friend is your needs answered.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

I used to take my short stories to girls‘ homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies – or else? The chain reaction of evil – hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars – must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

There’s a part of you – the born-again part, your spirit – that’s dead to sin. That’s why it bothers you now when you sin. The ‚wilderness‘ part of you – your soul – is your unrenewed mind, out-of-control emotions, and stubborn will.

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.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

People like to hear the word ‚love.‘

Acting is happy agony.

In the flush of love’s light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

When people get married young, you don’t really understand the true definition of marriage.

That’s what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he’s wise.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.

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

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

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

In Germany, they all thought I was a bit mental, very emotional.

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

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

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

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

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

I’ve done the bad-boy thing. It was fun for a good three months. But the thing about bad boys is, you have to keep in mind, you’re never gonna marry a bad boy.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. Christ teaches that God is love.

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.