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

My fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids‘ reaction to that divorce.

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.

The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

That’s what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he’s wise.

I’ve told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn’t kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.

Man’s enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It’s the magic sauce.

I love food.

Single life is so overrated.

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

I’ve… been accused of being involved with every man I’m ever seen with or worked with. Maybe I have, maybe I ain’t. I never tell if I have.

No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.

Part of me feels you can’t say you were truly in love if it didn’t last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that’s when I’ll know it’s real – because it lasted.

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

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

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

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

Men and women do think differently, and frankly, we don’t understand each other. Not at all! But that’s what makes relationships so amazing.

The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.

The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.

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

We will always be a family. Always.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

When you have good friends you’ve been around, every time they talk, you don’t give them your full attention. You don’t look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you’re listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.

They died hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

Anxiety and spiritual searching have been consistent themes with me, and that figures into my worldview. But I tend to make my songs sound like relationship songs.

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.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, ‚I love you.‘

The relationship to one’s fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one’s striving.

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn’t care what kind of movies I made.

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.

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

Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds, they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

Though lovers be lost, love shall not.

Everything is clearer when you’re in love.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: ‚This is my country.‘

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.

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.

Love is the one wild card.