People were saying that David Geffen and I had gotten married and it just blew me away. Not that they thought I was gay, but that they thought I could land a guy that hot.

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

No one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert by yourself, but you are related. You cannot escape from that absolute fact. You cannot exist in isolation.

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

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone’s wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

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.

When your mother asks, ‚Do you want a piece of advice?‘ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don’t know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.

I’ve seen my friends take someone back after they’ve cheated because they fit perfectly.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

I’ve done the bad-boy thing. It was fun for a good three months. But the thing about bad boys is, you have to keep in mind, you’re never gonna marry a bad boy.

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.

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

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

Know your worth! People always act like they’re doing more for you than you’re doing for them.

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship – never.

I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.

I think, a lot of times when you meet someone, you feel like you need to appear like you’re not interested in them so that they’ll be more interested in you. But what happens when you start showing him that you actually like him? What’s he gonna do then? Play the tape forward; how do you keep a guy like that? I don’t want to sign up for that.

Every man’s reputation proceeds from those of his own household.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

My dad was never married. He was kind of a rolling stone. But he was never disrespectful. At the same time, even though he had women in his life when I was a kid, there wasn’t any consistency.

Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.

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

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

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.

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.

We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.

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

I don’t keep people around me that aren’t family. You don’t get to stay. Unless you’re eating at the table with us, you’re not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.

I didn’t know any gay people in my childhood.

I love to flirt, and I’ve never met a man I didn’t like.

Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

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

I always wanted to be loved.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

I don’t eat with beautiful women alone.

I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.

She’s been married so many times she has rice marks on her face.

I am not gay, but if I were, I would be the first one running out of the closet.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

A friend is nothing but a known enemy.

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

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

What good am I? I can’t have kids. I can’t cook. I’ve been divorced three times. Who would want me?