Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

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

I’ve never had a divorce, but I’ve seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can’t write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I’m able to kind of express it, or their joy.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

I know love is the answer.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

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.

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

I think that you can love people without it being the great love.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

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.

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

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.

Sooner or later we’re all someone’s dog.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

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.

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.

People like to hear the word ‚love.‘

They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.

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

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

If I love you, I show you I love you every day. Little things, big things.

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

Disagreement is something normal.

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

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

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

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

‚Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

What women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.

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

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

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

Familiarity breeds contempt – and children.

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.

He that overvalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.

If I’d married someone in show business, there’d be too much competition.

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.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.

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

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

What you guys want, I’m for.

Every once in a while I get the highly inappropriate proposal which is like, ‚Wow, Really! You don’t even know me and I don’t know you at all, and you want that to happen? Tonight? Ok, I get off work at 7.30.‘

I don’t want to get into it, but if you know someone, it doesn’t mean you agree with everything they say or they do.

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it’s with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.

President Assad, I worked with. I know him reasonably well, met with him a few times, and he’s a liar.

Those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

If people wonder, yes, Hillary Clinton is my friend. She has been a friend to me and Barack and Malia and Sasha, and Bill and Chelsea have been embracing and supportive from the very day my husband took the oath of office.

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

It’s probably the worst feeling in the world, when you’re deeply and madly in love with a woman and you know she’s not feeling you the same way, and you don’t know why.