There are no rules when it comes to love.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

I was adored once too.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

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.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

The truth is God created us to have relationship with us. He wants to love us and take care of us, and He wants us to love Him. That’s where our walk with Christ has to start.

I make friends faster and easier than journalists.

My mother loved children – she would have given anything if I had been one.

He that overvalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it – and sometimes three.

Children make your life important.

The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

Of course, ‚I Will Always Love You‘ is the biggest song so far in my career. I’m famous for several, but that one has been recorded by more people and made me more money, I think, than all of them. But that song did come from a true and deep place in my heart.

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

Young love is wild and outrageous, laughing at moderation and blinding us to common sense.

As apostles and prophets, we are concerned not only for our children and grandchildren but for yours as well – and for each of God’s children.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

It’s still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.

Your friend is your needs answered.

I’m a girls‘ girl. I have guy friends, but the problem with having guy friends is, like, I always get linked to them, and they’ll end up in a slideshow of people I’ve apparently dated on the Internet.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

As I get older, I tend to put more into family than I used to.

I’ve got a crush on my backing singer.

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

I left Mainz after 18 years and thought, ‚Next time, I will work with a little less of my heart.‘ I said that because we all cried for a week. The city gave us a goodbye party, and it lasted a week.

Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.

There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls, but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd. Of course, I expect this, but the knife still cuts.

I’ve learned that usually, the less I know about other people, the better off I am.

Politics doesn’t make strange bedfellows – marriage does.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It’s one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

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

I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don’t know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

If you get down and quarell everyday, you’re saying prayers to the devil, I say.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

Doo-wop is special music to me because it’s so straightforward and melody-driven and captures emotions.

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.

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.

My wife and I don’t compete. We know each other’s preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That’s what friends do.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

I think I have the nicest fans in the world, and I quite like being surrounded by people if we’re all feeling the same emotion in the same room.

I love the sea.

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

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

Most people would rather give than get affection.