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.

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I’m upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

Like associates with like.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

I don’t have this feeling that 70 is really old.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

I’m the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that’s horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it.

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

People make jokes about my bosoms, why don’t they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It’s obvious I’ve got big ones and if people want to assume they’re not mine, then let them.

As a former resident with strong personal and ministry ties to the North Star State, I pray that the good people of Minnesota will show their support for God’s definition of marriage, between a man and a woman.

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.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

There will be gay couples; it will exist. It is not very nice that people who are married – who divorce in three seconds – don’t want protection for the others. The legal system should protect everyone, not just the few people who think they are above everybody else because they are married.

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.

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

I’m married. My wife, Stella – a beautiful woman. She’s brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one’s temper and disturb one’s quiet.

Every man’s reputation proceeds from those of his own household.

Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you’re heartbroken, but tomorrow you’ll be in love again.

Everybody has their thing they like or don’t like to see. It’s all in your head. That’s why people take their own pictures, because it’s difficult for someone else to capture what you seek.

I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

I searched for years I found no love. I’m sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.

I definitely don’t think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

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

Those whom the gods love grow young.

When somewhat at a distance, I cannot hear the high tones of instruments, voices. In speaking, it is not surprising that there are people who have never noticed it, for as a rule I am absent-minded, and they account for it in that way.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.

When I left Dortmund, I said it’s not important what people think when you come in but what they think when you leave.

Anywhere I go, there is always an incredible crowd that follows me. In Rome, as I land at the airport, even the men kiss me. I love Rome.

Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.

All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I’d worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: ‚Don’t hide these things from me. I’d rather you ask me these things straight out, and I’ll answer all your questions.‘

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

In my experience, many people confuse being cowardly with being nice.

I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Ultimately, who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business.

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.

Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

You bring children into the world. You love them with heart and soul.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

The truth is God created us to have relationship with us. He wants to love us and take care of us, and He wants us to love Him. That’s where our walk with Christ has to start.