My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

Don’t get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.

Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It’s the magic sauce.

The wisest hustler can suddenly fall for the worst tramp and lose all of his money on her. The hustler is aware of his own weaknesses and openings to con. This awareness is his edge.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

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

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

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.

When you really don’t like a guy, they’re all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they’re no longer interested.

I’ll tell you what I was like as a child. I was a good person. I was high-spirited but I was a big reader.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can’t ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment’s notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow – that’s vulnerability.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.

I’m sick of the tabloids‘ saying I obsess over guys. Why would you obsess over guys? They don’t like it.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

I had this child, and it destroyed my family.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

I’ve learned that we all change constantly. It’s rare to find that person who is growing with you in the same way at the same time, who encourages you to grow.

I married my best friend that happens to be a girl.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

I’ve laid my friends bare.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

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

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

He who hath many friends hath none.

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

You can’t be in love with a Google search.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

If I’m gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That’s how it works.

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it’s to have any meaning in this world – and stop being its apologist.

I think I have a certain respect for people, you know. And I guess a lot of times I expect that respect to go both ways.

I love nerdy, cute, quirky boys who don’t take themselves too seriously.

I’ve never had a dislike for men. I’ve been badly treated by some. But I’ve been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.

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.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

I purposely don’t talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But I do say that I want you to be blessed. To me, prosperity is having health, having great children, having peace, good relationships. It’s not about the money.

I just got to feel that whoever I marry has some real regard for me.

Country radio is much more like a family than any other group of people that I’ve met.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

In real life, I’m a really smiley person. I smile when I talk and I laugh.

A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend’s griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother’s happiness.

That’s what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he’s wise.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

A man’s manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting ‚All the Gods are bastards.‘

I mean, families are weird.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.