No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

You can draw inspiration from anything. If you’re a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you’re casually talking to says something that makes you so mad – you can create an entire scenario around that.

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

If I think too hard about a relationship, I’ll talk myself out of it.

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

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

The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny.

I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

I want someone who can trust that my big hands are going to take care of them.

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or ‚our‘ country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

Though lovers be lost, love shall not.

‚The Story of Us‘ is about running into someone I had been in a relationship with at an awards show, and we were seated a few seats away from each other. I just wanted to say to him, ‚Is this killing you? Because it’s killing me.‘ But I didn’t. Because I couldn’t. Because we both had these silent shields up.

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.

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.

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

It is the duty of every thoughtful Indian not to marry. In case he is helpless in regard to marriage, he should abstain from sexual intercourse with his wife.

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

No one loves the man whom he fears.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

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

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

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

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I’m not leading them to some false God or something like that.

In order to have friends, you must first be one.

I know love is the answer.

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.

One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.

I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman’s skillet and the man’s ax-helve.

The relationship to one’s fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one’s striving.

Anxiety and spiritual searching have been consistent themes with me, and that figures into my worldview. But I tend to make my songs sound like relationship songs.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

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.

It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

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

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

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

We were at a beach one summer, and I had a bathing suit on. My wife looked at me and said: ‚Boy, you are skinny, aren’t you?‘ I said: ‚Honey, I’d like to remind you that it was minor defects like this that kept me from getting a better wife.‘

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

One of the most terrible feelings in the world is knowing that someone else doesn’t like you. Especially when you don’t know what you’ve done to deserve it.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

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

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

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.

Sometimes I’ve been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.

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

Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

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

Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It’s also the dangerous part and it’s an ugly emotion that hurts.

Mad or glad, Mr. Reagan is head over heels in love with Mrs. Reagan and can’t even imagine a world without her – He loves her.