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

I don’t really know that much about love, it turns out.

I’ve got incredible support from my wife and family and people around me. I’ve got great people around me who handle anything on the outside, business-wise, who help free me up to create in my job.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.

Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.

Those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

I’ve done a lot of things I’m not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that.

When you really don’t like a guy, they’re all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they’re no longer interested.

Though lovers be lost, love shall not.

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.

Make sure of your commitment to Jesus Christ, and seek to follow Him every day. Don’t be swayed by the false values and goals of this world, but put Christ and His will first in everything you do.

Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

Young love is wild and outrageous, laughing at moderation and blinding us to common sense.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me – spiritually and financially.

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.

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.

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

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

I was always trying – I never wanted to let my fans down; I always wanted them to see me in my art form.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people’s kids than I did my own.

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.

In the real world, children love me.

When the best leader’s work is done the people say, ‚We did it ourselves.‘

One of my direct subordinates, one of my guys that worked for me, he would call me up or pull me aside with some major problem, some issue that was going on. And he’d say, ‚Boss, we’ve got this, and that, and the other thing.‘ And I’d look at him and I’d say, ‚Good.‘

Do not rebuke mockers, or they will hate you; rebuke the wise, and they will love you.

My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.

It’s annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren’t they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

I don’t have to ‚freedom-kiss‘ my wife when what I really want to do is French-kiss her.

The colonel replied that he didn’t care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

There’s a bond among a kitchen staff, I think. You spend more time with your chef in the kitchen than you do with your own family.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

I want someone who can trust that my big hands are going to take care of them.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

I’m working at trying to be a Christian, and that’s serious business. It’s like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy – it’s serious business.

I’ve seen my friends take someone back after they’ve cheated because they fit perfectly.

The great thieves lead away the little thief.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

Women don’t try to use me.

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

We’re hardwired for connection. There’s no arguing with the bioscience. But we can want it so badly we’re trying to hot-wire it.

Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

The painter who is familiar with the nature of the sinews, muscles, and tendons, will know very well, in giving movement to a limb, how many and which sinews cause it; and which muscle, by swelling, causes the contraction of that sinew; and which sinews, expanded into the thinnest cartilage, surround and support the said muscle.

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

I think that it’s okay to be mad at someone who hurt you. This isn’t about, like, the pageantry of trying to seem like nothing affects you.

The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

I have a slight bit of OCD, I think. I’m not walking around flipping light switches. But when I say I’m going to do something, I have to do it.

No one wants advice – only corroboration.

I want to marry Arline because I love her – which means I want to take care of her. That is all there is to it. I want to take care of her. I am anxious for the responsibilities and uncertainties of taking care of the girl I love.