Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.

There are no rules when it comes to love.

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

Love is an interesting thing.

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

You can’t trust very many people.

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.

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

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

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

I bought a gun and chose drugs instead.

I can’t go out with a Republican.

It’s not possible to stop love.

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

Then, when I’m in these relationships with people who are also creative, or creative in their own way, what happens is the attraction is initially there and it’s all unicorns and rainbows. And then they hate me.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

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

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

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.

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

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

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open.

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, ‚Did you sleep good?‘ I said ‚No, I made a few mistakes.‘

Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.

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

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.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.

You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s.

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

To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.

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.

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

I’m not denyin‘ the women are foolish. God Almighty made ‚em to match the men.

The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.

Women – always in trouble with them, but can’t live without them.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

My experiences in life are getting bigger and better. The more stuff I do, the more stuff I talk about – having kids, traveling, going through relationship problems, dealing with things in my own family. All that stuff builds character.

I worked with someone who told me they’d never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.

All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader.

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

There’s only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I’ll get married again.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

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.

Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.

You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.