The public doesn’t mind people living together without being married, providing they don’t overdo it.

Women – always in trouble with them, but can’t live without them.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.

I took the vow of celibacy in 1906. I had not shared my thoughts with my wife until then, but only consulted her at the time of making the vow. She had no objection.

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

Women may fall when there’s no strength in men.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Love is a serious mental disease.

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

My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we’re blood.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.

Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

The secular argument, or the liberal argument, is to as much as possible remove taboos so things do not become unmentionable; to let some air into the discussion.

Take my wife… Please!

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o‘ the flatterer.

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.

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

If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.

No one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert by yourself, but you are related. You cannot escape from that absolute fact. You cannot exist in isolation.

To be social is to be forgiving.

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

‚Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

Men and women do think differently, and frankly, we don’t understand each other. Not at all! But that’s what makes relationships so amazing.

Within one’s own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.

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.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

I don’t think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.

Though lovers be lost, love shall not.

I’ve laid my friends bare.

It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?

No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.

It’s very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.

Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It’s the magic sauce.

When Brexiters told the public that people were exaggerating, that there would be a financial meltdown, I think it’s been proven that they were not exaggerating.

My fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids‘ reaction to that divorce.

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.

Basically my wife was immature. I’d be at home in the bath and she’d come in and sink my boats.

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

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.

My husband is everything to me and without him it’s just not the same.

Public opinion can be influential, the media can be influential.

Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it’s my mind.

Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It’s also the dangerous part and it’s an ugly emotion that hurts.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.