Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, ‚Did you sleep good?‘ I said ‚No, I made a few mistakes.‘

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

No one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert by yourself, but you are related. You cannot escape from that absolute fact. You cannot exist in isolation.

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

Understanding is a two-way street.

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.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

We’re not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.

My wife and I love each other very much.

People were saying that David Geffen and I had gotten married and it just blew me away. Not that they thought I was gay, but that they thought I could land a guy that hot.

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

Mostly, my flying has been solo, but the preparation for it wasn’t. Without my husband’s help and encouragement, I could not have attempted what I have. Ours has been a contented and reasonable partnership, he with his solo jobs and I with mine. But always with work and play together, conducted under a satisfactory system of dual control.

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

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

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

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.

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.

No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.

Sucking up to the biggies won’t get us anywhere.

I’m not a real movie star. I’ve still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

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.

There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying.

I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

I worked with someone who told me they’d never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there’s nothing really to talk about.

Arthur Miller wouldn’t have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.

There are people who are really good managers, people who can manage a big organization, and then there are people who are very analytic or focused on strategy. Those two types don’t usually tend to be in the same person. I would put myself much more in the latter camp.

I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.

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

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

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

Our focus needs to be less on what our legacy’s going to be or how we can control each other and more how we can give to each other.

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

In war there is no substitute for victory.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

True friends stab you in the front.

I know love is the answer.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

Life would pall if it were all sugar; salt is bitter if taken by itself; but when tasted as part of the dish, it savours the meat. Difficulties are the salt of life.