Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.

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.

For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don’t think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I’m with them.

People like to hear the word ‚love.‘

I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

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.

Live-tweeting your bikini wax is not vulnerability. Nor is posting a blow-by-blow of your divorce . That’s an attempt to hot-wire connection. But you can’t cheat real connection. It’s built up slowly. It’s about trust and time.

I can’t relate to lazy people. We don’t speak the same language. I don’t understand you. I don’t want to understand you.

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe what a man says himself rather than what people say he says.

I don’t like being alone.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

I make decisions all day, so it’s nice for a woman like me to go to dinner and have the man take the menu and say, ‚Let me order.‘ Other women would be offended by that, but I’m like, ‚Good. Because I can’t make one more decision today.‘ I want someone to rub my feet without being asked.

Wives are people who feel they don’t dance enough.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

I don’t have time to be lonely. And I get fearful of relationships because I feel guilty about wanting someone to be completely faithful and loyal, when I can’t even give them 10 percent of the attention that they need. It’s just the reality of my time, my life, my schedule.

Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

Everything God tells us to do is for our good. Whether it’s direction you get in His Word or something He’s specifically put in your heart for your situation in life, the absolute best thing you can ever do is obey Him promptly and completely.

People often think I’m a faker, but I’m usually honest, in a certain way – in such a way that often nobody believes me!

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

A family shares hardships and a connected history.

I didn’t have a father figure in the house.

I don’t like people going behind my back.

I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.

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

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.

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

There’s plenty about God that I don’t understand and can’t explain. But I come back to my core belief that God is good, that He’s for us.

You pay a certain penalty for going your own way. A lot of people think you’re nuts, and you’re not as popular with girls as you should be.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.

In spiritual things, it is God who performs all things for you. Rest in Him, then.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

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

Within one’s own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

Caesar’s wife must be above suspicion.

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

We never love a person, but only qualities.

My experiences in life are getting bigger and better. The more stuff I do, the more stuff I talk about – having kids, traveling, going through relationship problems, dealing with things in my own family. All that stuff builds character.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

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

I’m not denyin‘ the women are foolish. God Almighty made ‚em to match the men.

I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman’s skillet and the man’s ax-helve.

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.

The real question for me is, do people have the tools that they need in order to make those decisions well? And I think that it’s actually really important that Facebook continually makes it easier and easier to make those decisions… If people feel like they don’t have control over how they’re sharing things, then we’re failing them.

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

Love always ends differently and it always begins differently – especially with me.

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 get a hold on boys you must be their friend.

Ninety-nine percent of the men and women of the FBI… are just professionals. I don’t want Americans, if an FBI agent knocks on their door, to have to be worried about well, is he a Democrat or a Republican? He’s an FBI agent.

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

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related.

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.