The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.

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.

A word to the wise is infuriating.

I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

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.

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

My husband says I look like a Q-tip.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation’s promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

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.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend – and he’s a priest.

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

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

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

It’s probably the worst feeling in the world, when you’re deeply and madly in love with a woman and you know she’s not feeling you the same way, and you don’t know why.

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

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

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

Be nice to your children. After all, they are going to choose your nursing home.

If I held you any closer I would be on the other side of you.

I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.

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.

We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.

Our focus needs to be less on what our legacy’s going to be or how we can control each other and more how we can give to each other.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

It is better to be deceived by one’s friends than to deceive them.

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

I didn’t have a father figure in the house.

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.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.

Does anybody really think that they didn’t get what they had because they didn’t have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

Fame may go by and – so long, I’ve had you.

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

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

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

I’ve done the bad-boy thing. It was fun for a good three months. But the thing about bad boys is, you have to keep in mind, you’re never gonna marry a bad boy.

You have to stay faithful to what you’re working on.

Part of our tradition as black women is that we are universalists. Black children, yellow children, red children, brown children, that is the black woman’s normal, day-to-day relationship. In my family alone, we are about four different colors.

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

Players now have a groin injury for months and months, and I often think they don’t really give a toss whether they’re playing or not because they’re getting paid anyway.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they’re gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you’re going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.

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

You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.