Rituals are important. Nowadays it’s hip not to be married. I’m not interested in being hip.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.

Remember, it’s as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

I’m not who people expect me to be. I’m not Henry Kissinger.

Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn’t accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else’s insistence or someone else’s whim or convenience.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

My life is not to be somebody else’s impact – you know what I mean?

Marriage and family are ordained of God. The family is the most important social unit in time and in eternity. Under God’s great plan of happiness, families can be sealed in temples and be prepared to return to dwell in His holy presence forever. That is eternal life!

I don’t have a type. I don’t have a specific kind of human being. It’s just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I’ve ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.

Mad or glad, Mr. Reagan is head over heels in love with Mrs. Reagan and can’t even imagine a world without her – He loves her.

Politics doesn’t make strange bedfellows – marriage does.

I talk about myself in the third person all the time. I don’t live my life in the way someone like you does. I live my life completely serving only my work and my fans.

It’s a representation of yourself, and you can express a lot of your creativity with what your wearing.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

At Sarah Lawrence, I realized that everybody was already what they were going to be. The painters were painting, the writers writing, the dancers dancing. And nobody wore any makeup. The art was uppermost.

The finest clothing made is a person’s own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.

I’m not a sheep.

My wife has about everything I can think of.

I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.

I’m very free-spirited.

We are all special cases.

I don’t think I would be interested in the climate at all if I had been like everyone else.

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.

The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings.

Married or single, you sisters possess distinctive capabilities and special intuition you have received as gifts from God. We brethren cannot duplicate your unique influence.

I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can’t get my wife to go swimming.

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.

Everyone has their style and your style explains a lot about who you are – you feel me? I’ve had style since childhood, so I like to dress how I feel. But maybe I get carried away by some trends.

I don’t see myself as ever being like anybody else.

We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy.

When you realize who you live for, and who’s important to please, a lot of people will actually start living. I am never going to get caught up in that. I’m gonna look back on my life and say that I enjoyed it – and I lived it for me.

I took the vow of celibacy in 1906. I had not shared my thoughts with my wife until then, but only consulted her at the time of making the vow. She had no objection.

There isn’t anybody that looks like me without clothes on.

People look at the same passage, and one person will say this is the best thing he’s ever read, and another person will say it’s absolutely idiotic. I mean, there’s no way to reconcile those two things. You just have to forget the whole business of what people are saying.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.

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

It doesn’t matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I’m a woman or a man.

You learn that there’s no right way to do it, no wrong way to do it. It’s just what you feel comfortable with, to trust that, and don’t let anybody box you in to a certain style of parenting or make you feel a certain way about what your kids do.

Even as a child, Muhammad Ali got perverse pleasure out of being different. He liked the attention it got him, but most of all he just liked being himself: odd and independent.

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.

Don’t make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I’m not.

Factoring in millions of people when I’m writing a song is not a good idea. I don’t ever do it.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

Everyone is different. Everyone has different teams they’ve played on, coaches they’ve played for.

I don’t have to be what you want me to be.

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

Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

I’m not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren’t any other people living in the world.

I don’t really have a gimmick or a ‚thing.‘ I’m one of the few artists who gets to be himself every day.

I am just one human being.