My wife and I love each other very much.

If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England – you couldn’t have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.

The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but the Pope has the duty, in Christ’s name, to remind the rich to help the poor, to respect them, to promote them.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

Our focus needs to be less on what our legacy’s going to be or how we can control each other and more how we can give to each other.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

I think I have had so much blessing – I’ve had my brother, who was brilliant – I think my family came closest to making a genius when they made my brother – Bailey was just all of that. He loved me.

I’m drawn to bad romances.

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.

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

It is necessary to fall in love… if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

I searched for years I found no love. I’m sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.

Keeping score is for games, not friendships.

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it’s a better way of telling the stories.

I mean, families are weird.

Everything is clearer when you’re in love.

When people get married young, you don’t really understand the true definition of marriage.

Friends accept you the way you are.

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

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.

If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.

My wife thinks she’s better than me at puzzles. I haven’t given in on that one yet.

A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend – and he’s a priest.

I could fall in love with a sumo wrestler if he told stories and made me laugh. Obviously, it would be easier if someone was African-American and lived next door and went to the same church. Because then I wouldn’t have to translate.

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

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

I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.

People like music when they’re in love, but they don’t need it as much. You need music when you’re missing someone or you’re pining for someone or you’re forgetting someone or you’re trying to process what just happened.

I can’t go out with a Republican.

Women don’t try to use me.

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.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

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.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

Confidence, as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I loved cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.

I think any man who lets a woman pick what he should wear… I mean, you gotta draw the line somewhere as a man. I see these guys, ‚My wife told me to wear this!‘ And I just shake my head.

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

I’m not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

All men hate the nagging.

I love story songs because I’ve always loved books.

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

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

I’ve found that men I’ve dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I’ve found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren’t competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been… challenging.

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved 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.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I’m upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying.

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.