The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

I know I’m talented, but I wasn’t put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but it’s not where it begins and ends.

I don’t want to get into it, but if you know someone, it doesn’t mean you agree with everything they say or they do.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies – or else? The chain reaction of evil – hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars – must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

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

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author’s world.

I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

As a father and now a grandfather to three wonderful grandchildren, I know how magical the first year of a child’s life is but also how much hard work it takes. Being able to spend as much time as possible with your loved ones is absolutely vital, especially early on.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

I love our daughters more than anything in the world – more than life itself. And while that may not be the first thing that some folks want to hear from an Ivy-league-educated lawyer, it is truly who I am. So for me, being Mom-in-Chief is, and always will be, job number one.

My husband calls me ‚catfish.‘ He says I’m all mouth and no brains.

I always wanted a great love affair: something that feels big and full, really honest, and enough. No moment should feel slight, false, or a little off. For me, it had to be everything.

Intimates are predestined.

Of all nature’s gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

I’m drawn to bad romances.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.

Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish.

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

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

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

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

My family is very good about visiting me, and other friends as well.

People shop for a bathing suit with more care than they do a husband or wife. The rules are the same. Look for something you’ll feel comfortable wearing. Allow for room to grow.

Why do Jewish men die before their wives? They want to.

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love – first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.

I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

Assuming if there’s such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?

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.

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.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

It used to be the case, like you’d switch jobs, and then maybe you wouldn’t keep in touch with all the people that you knew from that old job, just because it was too hard. But one of the things that Facebook does is it makes it really easy to just stay in touch with all these people.

The Occupy movement is – it was a big surprise.

I think any man who lets a woman pick what he should wear… I mean, you gotta draw the line somewhere as a man. I see these guys, ‚My wife told me to wear this!‘ And I just shake my head.

What women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

Don’t get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

I knew I was blessed with a gift of having both parents.

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.

Where love is, there God is also.

It’s amazing: I am a New Yorker. It’s strange; I never thought I would be.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

Children make your life important.

I’ve been careful in love. I’ve been careless in love. And I’ve had adventures I wouldn’t trade for anything.

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.