The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

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

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

Like associates with like.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

There is no such thing as a lovers‘ oath.

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream.

In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.

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

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

We teach that God’s love for His children is infinite.

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

Our love, our gratitude, our admiration for our men and women in uniform, our veterans and their families – all of that is bigger than any one party or any one election.

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.

The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly.

I don’t eat with beautiful women alone.

There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving – by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

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

A youth, when at home, should be filial and, abroad, respectful to his elders. He should be earnest and truthful. He should overflow in love to all and cultivate the friendship of the good. When he has time and opportunity, after the performance of these things, he should employ them in polite studies.

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

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

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

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.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.

I have noticed… that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.

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

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.

I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it’s absolutely true.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

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.

You can’t have it all, all at once. Who – man or woman – has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

You can’t forgive without loving. And I don’t mean sentimentality. I don’t mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, ‚I forgive. I’m finished with it.‘

One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what’s really happening to me, even if it’s a tough pill to swallow for people around me… I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

Though lovers be lost, love shall not.

I thank God I’m myself and for the life I’m given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.

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.

Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

I’ve always loved the fans in Scotland and have a little Scottish blood of my own.

Logically, harmony must come from the heart… Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

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

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

I want to be a man who is truthful and who won’t let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, ‚Here I am. This is me.‘ I feel there’s something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they’re already asleep.