My wife doesn’t even want to spend 2 hours with me.

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.

They do not love that do not show their love.

People don’t realise how difficult it is to work with people day in and day out that know absolutely nothing.

The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

You pay a certain penalty for going your own way. A lot of people think you’re nuts, and you’re not as popular with girls as you should be.

Love is trembling happiness.

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.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it’s with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.

People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they’re much more open.

I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

Familiarity breeds contempt – and children.

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

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.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.

My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don’t share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

A woman can’t be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can’t do it by herself.

Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards – the things we live by and teach our children – are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I’ve had. And now that I’m in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won’t be half as much anger as there was.

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

If you get down and quarell everyday, you’re saying prayers to the devil, I say.

A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I’m writing about New York.

My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.

Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.

Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

You gotta understand: I believe a woman should praise the man, the king. If you holding it down for your woman, I feel like the woman should praise. And the man should praise the queen.

Wives are people who feel they don’t dance enough.

If I’m in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person’s side of the case at least as well as they could. One has to be able to say that in any well-conducted argument.

I think it’s brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I’ve ever seen is called television – but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

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.

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

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

God is patient with us to become the God’s children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.

I spend a lot of time just, you know, with my girlfriend and my dog. And I mean, we don’t have a lot of furniture in our house, so it’s really simple. And we’re trying to build products for everyone in the world, right. And you don’t want to get isolated to do that.

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.

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.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

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.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

There’s a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more.

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who’ll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you’re in the wrong house, that’s what it means.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

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