Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it’s a green light.

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

We never love a person, but only qualities.

It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we’re not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

Love can do much, but duty more.

In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

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

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

It’s not possible to stop love.

What the heck is true love? I remember feeling, back when I was 12 and ‚going‘ with this girl, ‚Is this true love?‘

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

You may say, ‚Well, dragons don’t exist.‘ It’s, like, yes they do – the category ‚predator‘ and the category ‚dragon‘ are the same category. It absolutely exists. It’s a superordinate category. It exists absolutely more than anything else. In fact, it really exists.

You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.

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.

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution – this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.

I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I’m willing to show you. In you, it’s courage and daring. In me, it’s weakness.

Everyone has been in love, at some point or another.

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.

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Life is our dictionary.

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

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

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.

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

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

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

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

When I say I’m going to take care of a woman, I don’t just mean physically or sexually or romantically. I’m going to take care of her emotionally and spiritually. I’m going to take care of her in all ways. I take a lot of pride in that today.

I’ve done a lot of things I’m not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that.

Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.

I’ll tell you one thing, since I’m married, single people look absolutely ridiculous to me.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.