Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

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

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

Jesus never mistreated anyone just because they mistreated Him. He confronted them in a spirit of gentleness and then continued to love them.

I love sleep; it’s my favorite.

Hate has no place in the house of God.

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

If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn’t make your house look any better.

I love stuff from the Holy Land. It makes me feel blessed.

Love is trembling happiness.

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

Writing is a solitary experience. I’m extremely superstitious. If I talk about the book or name the title out loud before finishing, I feel the energy I need to write will be drained. It’s so intimate, I can’t even share it with my wife.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

I’ve got a crush on my backing singer.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

I will never be happy without having someone. Going to sleep alone kills me.

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

I was very worried about my mother, growing up – a lot. I do not want my children to be worried about me.

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

One of the things I’ve told men over and over and over and over is if you’re being rejected by all the women that you approach, it’s not the women!

I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few.

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?

I’m not a real movie star. I’ve still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author’s world.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

My husband is everything to me and without him it’s just not the same.

My mom, she was a very, very soft woman. It was hard for her to yell or even curse. But when it came to fighting for her kids, she found a strength she didn’t always know she had.

I mean, families are weird.

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

A pessimist? That’s a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.

I spend a lot of time just, you know, with my girlfriend and my dog. And I mean, we don’t have a lot of furniture in our house, so it’s really simple. And we’re trying to build products for everyone in the world, right. And you don’t want to get isolated to do that.

Heavenly Father loves every one of His children. After all, He is their Father.

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it’s time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.

Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss.

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

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

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it’s almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.

All men hate the nagging.

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes – or just by staring into space.

Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery.

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.

Patience is key for getting over a breakup. That, and trailing off your interaction after the breakup.

It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to us than Elves, or even than Dwarves. Of old they spoke the languages of Men, after their own fashion, and liked and disliked much the same things as Men did. But what exactly our relationship is can no longer be discovered.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.

If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.