Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don’t think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I’m with them.

Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds, they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material.

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.

Here’s what I’ve learned about deal-breakers. If you have enough natural chemistry with someone, you overlook every single thing that you said would break the deal.

Love is a serious mental disease.

I don’t like being alone.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

If you cry over a guy, then your friends can’t date him. It can’t even be considered.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

There’s only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I’ll get married again.

I have a family, loving aunts, and a good home. No, on the surface I seem to have everything except my one true friend. All I think about when I’m with friends is having a good time. I can’t bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. We don’t seem to be able to get any closer, and that’s the problem.

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

Most men are within a finger’s breadth of being mad.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

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.

All mankind love a lover.

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

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.

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

There are a lot of good women in New York.

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.

States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

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

I have a very good family. I’m very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It’s one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

Love is an interesting thing.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.

People like to hear the word ‚love.‘

I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.

I will never be happy without having someone. Going to sleep alone kills me.

Those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own.

I can’t deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I’m not leading them to some false God or something like that.

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

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.

I had this child, and it destroyed my family.

Every once in a while I get the highly inappropriate proposal which is like, ‚Wow, Really! You don’t even know me and I don’t know you at all, and you want that to happen? Tonight? Ok, I get off work at 7.30.‘

The more I grow in popularity, the lonelier it gets. Because you don’t really know me. You just know this part of me. You fell in love with that. But it’s way more intricate than what meets the surface.

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.

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

Marriage is the most wonderful thing ever.

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

I didn’t have a father figure in the house.