Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.

I am radically, insanely, nutty in love with Jesus!

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

I just want to keep writing music.

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

Maria is the best reason to come home.

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

The heart is forever inexperienced.

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

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

I think the perfection of love is that it’s not perfect.

Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it’s a green light.

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

In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.

I just got to feel that whoever I marry has some real regard for me.

We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New, but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it’s always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.

The first time you say something, it’s heard. The second time, it’s recognized, and the third time it’s learned.

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.

My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that’s not so bad; but New York City?

I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.

What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.

I’m actually a very honest person, and sometimes I end up like, ‚Man, I said too much.‘ It’s hard for me not to tell the truth when you ask me.

I think I have to trust that you end up with the person you’re supposed to end up with, and that everything in between is there to teach you stuff.

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

I feel like I’m the kind of guy that would have kids before getting married. The first thing would be kids.

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: ‚Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?‘ We must always consider the person.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but the Pope has the duty, in Christ’s name, to remind the rich to help the poor, to respect them, to promote them.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

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

He that has not got a wife is not yet a complete man.

Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

It’s sometimes comical to hear the younger generation ask their peers to repeat themselves.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

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

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

The difference between a stranger sending you a message that you might be interested in at a very low volume level, no repetition, just sending it to very few people, and that being done as spam – those things get close enough that you want to be careful never to filter out something that’s legitimate.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

Friend, there’s no greater investment in life than in being a people builder. Relationships are more important than our accomplishments.

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

Any man who doesn’t love his mama can’t be no friend of mine.

I was 14, and I fell in love with Pink Floyd.

Language is the dress of thought.

I’m just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there’s only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

I don’t need therapy. I’m not going to see a therapist; comedy acts as my therapy. I put my problems out there. I talk about them. I talk about everything before anybody has a chance.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

I was gutted to leave my boyfriend at home when I started my tour, but taking my pillow was like taking a little bit of him with me.

Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.

You can only have one aim per debate.