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 women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.

When people say ‚marriage‘ to me… It’s always a means to an end. Everyone’s so in a rush to define the relationship.

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

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.

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

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

Every day I go to my study and sit at my desk and put the computer on. At that moment, I have to open the door. It’s a big, heavy door. You have to go into the Other Room. Metaphorically, of course. And you have to come back to this side of the room. And you have to shut the door.

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

I haven’t had that one great love, which is good. I don’t want that to be in the past – I want it to be in the future.

I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that’s not what America’s about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don’t contract them.

It’s hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don’t always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.

I don’t think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be.

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

I don’t really know that much about love, it turns out.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

One word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and hammering out the promise for a number of weeks.

I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.

Pointing is a metaphor we all know. We’ve done a lot of studies and tests on that, and it’s much faster to do all kinds of functions, such as cutting and pasting, with a mouse, so it’s not only easier to use but more efficient.

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

It’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well.

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

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

I’m not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.

My wife doesn’t even want to spend 2 hours with me.

I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.

The relationship to one’s fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one’s striving.

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.

The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is a scientific one: dipping a thread into a supersaturated solution to induce crystal formation. I don’t think I solve problems in my poetry; I think I uncover the problems.

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

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

Really showing love requires more than just words.

One may have a blazing hearth in one’s soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny.

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

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.

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.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

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

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

I know that I’m not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don’t know how not to.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

I’ll tell you one thing, since I’m married, single people look absolutely ridiculous to me.

Within one’s own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

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.

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.