Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

If you like a person you say ‚let’s go into business together.‘ Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.

She would have thrived as a grandmother. I know how much she would have contributed to their lives, and I am sad they will miss out on that.

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia – to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

I don’t want enemies. I want friends, and I want them in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and loving whoever they want to.

Like every parent, when you start your family, your life completely changes. And you completely live for someone else. I find that the most extraordinary thing. Your life is handed over to someone else. From that moment on, they come first in every choice you make. It’s the most wonderful thing.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

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.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

When I think of the love I feel for each member of our family, I sense, to a slight degree, the love that our Heavenly Father bears for His children.

I knew through the surgeries that he was on my side and that this wasn’t something where I was gonna feel less of a woman, because my husband wasn’t gonna let that happen.

A true man hates no one.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

I have more friends in New York than Paris.

Anybody can be specific and obvious. That’s always been the easy way. It’s not that it’s so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it’s just that there’s nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.

They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.

I only see clearly what I remember.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

I mean, families are weird.

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.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

The only passion that guides me is for the truth… I look at everything from this point of view.

The perception of beauty is a moral test.

There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other.

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.

If someone lies, well, you had a choice to trust that person or not. I think the way my father raised me, well, he trusted everybody. And that worked for him.

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

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.

There are very few people who really appreciate my shows. People come to the show and they pay and they enjoy it, but I don’t really think most people really understand what they’ve seen.

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it – and sometimes three.

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

Love is an interesting thing.

All knowledge or form conception is evoked through the medium of the eye, either in response to disturbances directly received on the retina or to their fainter secondary effects and reverberations. Other sense organs can only call forth feelings which have no reality of existence and of which no conception can be formed.

Men want to make women happy.

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

Do you not realize that the love the Father bestowed on the perfect Christ He now bestows on you?

Marriage is the death of hope.

To be loved is very demoralizing.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you.

The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it’s almost impossible to stamp out.

There’s nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It’s a thing no married man knows anything about.

You can’t have a relationship with a device whose limits are unknown to you, because without limits, it keeps becoming something else.

A friend is nothing but a known enemy.

If you look at the movie ‚Belly,‘ I identify with Sincere the most. I am a gangster. I love my lady to death. I’m not in the game for the wrong reasons. I’m not in the game for the glory. I’m in the game to survive so the people that I love could be straight. I’m a highly intelligent individual.

I’ve laid my friends bare.

It’s only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I’m skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I’m big, when I was big, I never thought about it.

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

Knowledge is true opinion.

If a man’s character is to be abused there’s nobody like a relative to do the business.

If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.

God wants to help us… He loves us… we are His children. But He will not force His help on us at any time. He sees us when we struggle and fight and complain our way through things. And I believe it breaks His heart, when all we have to do is ask Him for help.

I think I have had so much blessing – I’ve had my brother, who was brilliant – I think my family came closest to making a genius when they made my brother – Bailey was just all of that. He loved me.