The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

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

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

One of the things I’ve told men over and over and over and over is if you’re being rejected by all the women that you approach, it’s not the women!

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

Most of the people that I deal with are human. So I’ve had a lot of experience with 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.

True friends stab you in the front.

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.

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

I don’t want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

I don’t like being alone.

Speak low, if you speak love.

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.

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

Remember, it’s as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

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

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.

A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

It always seems odd to me that the fundamental laws of physics, when discovered, can appear in so many different forms that are not apparently identical at first, but, with a little mathematical fiddling, you can show the relationship.

I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.

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

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

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.

The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken. More: You have ceded them power.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

I’ve never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I’ve only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.

My friends are my estate.

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

Brad was a huge surprise to me. I think we were both the last two people who were looking for a relationship. I certainly wasn’t. I was quite content to be a single mom with Mad.

It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

I have a family, loving aunts, and a good home. No, on the surface I seem to have everything except my one true friend. All I think about when I’m with friends is having a good time. I can’t bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. We don’t seem to be able to get any closer, and that’s the problem.

But there is a difference between cozying up to power and being close to power.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

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

All of the people in my life whom I consider to be close friends or colleagues are good thinkers.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.

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

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