There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world… Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

Well, all comedy starts with anger. You get angry, and its never for a good reason, right? You know its not a good reason. And then you try and work it from there.

I’ve done a lot of things I’m not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that.

I can’t deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you.

She’s been married so many times she has rice marks on her face.

There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.

Hear reason, or she’ll make you feel her.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.

My husband says I look like a Q-tip.

I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

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

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

Men’s vows are women’s traitors!

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

We’re not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.

You can’t forgive without loving. And I don’t mean sentimentality. I don’t mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, ‚I forgive. I’m finished with it.‘

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

What I’ve discovered is that in art, as in music, there’s a lot of truth-and then there’s a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It’s the moment that the audience falls in love.

In time we hate that which we often fear.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!

I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman’s skillet and the man’s ax-helve.

There’s a part of you – the born-again part, your spirit – that’s dead to sin. That’s why it bothers you now when you sin. The ‚wilderness‘ part of you – your soul – is your unrenewed mind, out-of-control emotions, and stubborn will.

It’s not possible to stop love.

Love is the one wild card.

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there’s too much fraternizing with the enemy.

I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it’s absolutely true.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

In hip-hop, there’s not a lot of love. There’s not a lot of love being spread. It’s always like ‚I’m stuntin‘ on you raps, or I’m better than you raps.‘ It’s not a lot of ‚Yo man, I idolize you raps.‘

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.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

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

Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

I don’t know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens.

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

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.

My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.

A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.

Agape, the love of each one of us for the other, from the closest to the furthest, is in fact the only way that Jesus has given us to find the way of salvation and of the Beatitudes.

To be loved is very demoralizing.

I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.

The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

I boldly assert, in fact I think I know, that a lot of friendships and connections absolutely depend upon a sort of shared language, or slang. Not necessarily designed to exclude others, this can establish a certain comity and, even after a long absence, re-establish it in a second.

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

I don’t try and be dark, but there are obviously darker emotions that I want to capture sometimes.