My wife and I are very affectionate.

The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it’s almost impossible to stamp out.

There’s a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It’s deceptive because when you have pride, you’re usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn’t sell well.

Lovers often invest their first meetings with retrospective significance, as if to try to conjure the elements of the numinous out of the stubborn witness of the everyday.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

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?

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

In my divorce, I stood up and said to my ex-wife, ‚Hey, I messed up. This had nothing to do with you. I didn’t understand what marriage was. I cheated. I was wrong. We couldn’t fix it; it got worse. I stepped away because I didn’t want it to get any worse. You’re the mother of my kids – I don’t want to hate you.‘

She’s been married so many times she has rice marks on her face.

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, ‚I love you.‘

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

My father wasn’t a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher – one of those Victorians, hard as iron – but my dad was tough enough.

Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature.

Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species.

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.

I had the classic 40 meltdown. I did. It’s embarrassing. It was pretty funny. But then I recovered. To me, it was like a second adolescence. Hormonally, my body was changing, my mind was changing, and so my relationship to myself and the world around me came to this assault of finiteness.

The only big things I’ve purchased are my dad’s heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.

A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is.

There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery.

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

He has the most who is most content with the least.

I love to flirt, and I’ve never met a man I didn’t like.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

I just want people to be the best thems and live the happiest lives possible.

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

In my own life I know that my state of cheerfulness is a reliable gauge of my level of spiritual enlightenment at that moment. The more cheerful, happy, contented, and satisfied I am feeling, the more aware I am of my deep connection to Spirit.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

I love Manchester. Everyone knows that – I have said it many times. Manchester is in my heart.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

I was 14, and I fell in love with Pink Floyd.

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

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

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

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

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

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.

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.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

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.

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

You are a child of the sun, you come from the sun, and that is something true with the Earth also… your relationship with the Earth is so deep, and the Earth is in you and this is something not very difficult, much less difficult then philosophy.

You can write a song about being in love with someone, but you don’t have to be in love with anyone.

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

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

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

Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.

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

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.