One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

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

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

Assuming if there’s such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

Eating is so intimate. It’s very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you’re inviting a person into your life.

There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls, but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd. Of course, I expect this, but the knife still cuts.

But does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I would argue not because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated intellect, and we are capable of controlling our innate behavior a lot of the time.

Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again.

I’m a girls‘ girl. I have guy friends, but the problem with having guy friends is, like, I always get linked to them, and they’ll end up in a slideshow of people I’ve apparently dated on the Internet.

Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another.

If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours.

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

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.

I can’t go out with a Republican.

To be loved is very demoralizing.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don’t know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

I’m married to an Italian woman, and I used to love cooking Italian at home, because it’s one-pot cooking. But my wife does not approve of my Italian cooking.

Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I’ve never been in love before – I don’t really know? I think I have. I guess it’s subjective in that way.

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

I can’t deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you.

Your friend is your needs answered.

Brad was a huge surprise to me. I think we were both the last two people who were looking for a relationship. I certainly wasn’t. I was quite content to be a single mom with Mad.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

The sadness of the women’s movement is that they don’t allow the necessity of love. See, I don’t personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken. More: You have ceded them power.

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.

My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists – to protect them and to promote their common welfare – all else is lost.

One word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and hammering out the promise for a number of weeks.

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.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they’re not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don’t care about money, and that’s not my problem.

It’s important to love in hip hop.

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

We never love a person, but only qualities.

My friends are my estate.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone’s inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.

We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother – but… when she became our child, the affection came.

I just always wanted to study human behavior because every psychologist that I would talk to would tell me I was bipolar, and I know I’m not bipolar, so I had to perform a psychoanalysis on myself to find out that I have unresolved grief.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

Friend, there’s no greater investment in life than in being a people builder. Relationships are more important than our accomplishments.

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it’s time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.

It’s not a faith in technology. It’s faith in people.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Bottom line: God will not allow any person to keep you from your destiny. They may be bigger, stronger, or more powerful, but God knows how to shift things around and get you to where you’re supposed to be.

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

I’m pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people’s bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.