Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‚I’ll buy a million dollars‘ worth of love.‘ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

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

I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman’s skillet and the man’s ax-helve.

I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.

There is a ‚sanctity‘ involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving – by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can’t be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

Every time I come to Europe, I’m just as excited as I was my very first time, which was many, many years ago. I love that part of the world, and I especially love the fans.

I’ve been careful in love. I’ve been careless in love. And I’ve had adventures I wouldn’t trade for anything.

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

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

Jesus never mistreated anyone just because they mistreated Him. He confronted them in a spirit of gentleness and then continued to love them.

I’ve never had a divorce, but I’ve seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can’t write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I’m able to kind of express it, or their joy.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

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

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

What good am I? I can’t have kids. I can’t cook. I’ve been divorced three times. Who would want me?

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.

I never thought I’d have children; I never thought I’d be in love, I never thought I’d meet the right person. Having come from a broken home – you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don’t look for them.

When I get up and work out, I’m working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It’s just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.

Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you’re heartbroken, but tomorrow you’ll be in love again.

The key to winning is choosing to do God’s will and loving others with all you’ve got.

Dear friends, we may well sing to our Beloved when it is near the time of our departure. It draws near, and as it approaches, we must not dread it, but rather thank God for it.

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

I think there are things that are based in your own dealings with someone that is a personal dealing, not a public dealing. Because you have personal experiences.

I always wanted a family.

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.

I love my friends and my past, and it’s made me who I am.

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

I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.

I’m the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren’t no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn’t know about them.

Creative people don’t behave very well generally. If you’re looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you’re gonna be depressed real fast. I don’t have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She’s my first priority.

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me – spiritually and financially.

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

Anxiety and spiritual searching have been consistent themes with me, and that figures into my worldview. But I tend to make my songs sound like relationship songs.

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.

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author’s world.

I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone’s inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.

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

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Love is easy, and I love writing. You can’t resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you’re in love.

My family is very good about visiting me, and other friends as well.

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.

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

Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness and moderation is certain and durable.

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.