Men want to make women happy.

We’re hardwired for connection. There’s no arguing with the bioscience. But we can want it so badly we’re trying to hot-wire it.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

My wife and I don’t compete. We know each other’s preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That’s what friends do.

But there is a difference between cozying up to power and being close to power.

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.

Love is not consolation. It is light.

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don’t have.

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

It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

When your mother asks, ‚Do you want a piece of advice?‘ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

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

A church without women would be like the apostolic college without Mary. The Madonna is more important than the apostles, and the church herself is feminine, the spouse of Christ and a mother.

Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

I think we all change each other’s paths. I don’t know which law idea that is in physics, but I don’t think any of us can live without affecting one another.

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

Be nice to your children. After all, they are going to choose your nursing home.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

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

My friends are my estate.

I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

I love women with attitude.

All men hate the nagging.

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

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

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

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

I’ve laid my friends bare.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

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.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.

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.

As I get older, I tend to put more into family than I used to.

I am a bit of a solitude person – a solitary personality. I like being on my own. I don’t have any major friendships or relationships with people.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.

In married life three is company and two none.

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

Laughter heals all wounds, and that’s one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you’re going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing.