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.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

When I think of the love I feel for each member of our family, I sense, to a slight degree, the love that our Heavenly Father bears for His children.

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.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

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.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

Yes, it is one of my ultimate aims – it is the ultimate sense of football: to make the people happy, to let them live some emotions that you usually can’t get.

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

If I’d been born ugly, you’d never have heard of Pele.

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

Regarding marriage, it – somehow, it didn’t happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.

Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.

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.

There are no rules when it comes to love.

I’ve known and continue to know every one of these major world leaders by their first names, and I have access to them.

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I’d worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: ‚Don’t hide these things from me. I’d rather you ask me these things straight out, and I’ll answer all your questions.‘

I’m not the most attractive fella. I’m not a Billy Dee Williams. Personality is everything.

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.

Crankiness is at the essence of all comedy. My wife and I were discussing the different types of cranky. There’s entertaining cranky, annoying cranky, angry cranky.

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

We’re so immaturely cynical as a culture. We’re not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they’re stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‚yours,‘ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

When I am talking to people who I feel don’t like me or are mean, I get really shy, and I kind of curl up personality wise.

I kind of love Cole Miller.

Everybody wants to be me. What can I say?

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

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

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?

A man’s only as old as the woman he feels.

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

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

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

I am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year. I don’t doubt that I shall have perfect crowds of admirers at that age. Then how I shall delight to make them await my bidding, and with what delight shall I witness their suspense while I make my final decision.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn’t be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.

Ever since I dated a woman, I know what it is to grab a curve on a woman’s body. Skinny’s not fine when the lights are low.

It’s hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don’t always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.

For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don’t think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I’m with them.

We all die, we all get sick, we all feel hunger and lust and pain, and therefore human life is consistent from one generation to the other. We all – most of us, anyway – want connections with other people and spend our lives looking for them.

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’ve told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn’t kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings – words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

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?

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

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

Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

Intimates are predestined.