There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

My wife thinks she’s better than me at puzzles. I haven’t given in on that one yet.

My father wasn’t a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher – one of those Victorians, hard as iron – but my dad was tough enough.

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

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

We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.

I can imagine it’s hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn’t know.

A woman can’t be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can’t do it by herself.

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

I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

Country radio is much more like a family than any other group of people that I’ve met.

For me, one of the toughest things about Valentine’s Day is that it gets geared up as the day to profess your love. See, T-E-S-T – that’s a bad word that doesn’t go with L-O-V-E.

Take my wife… Please!

I am a bit of a solitude person – a solitary personality. I like being on my own. I don’t have any major friendships or relationships with people.

There was one incident at a movie theater where my girl got mad at these guys who were talking behind us. I never looked back there, but she was like, ‚Will you all just shut up!‘ And I just got up and moved three rows in front. She was like, ‚What are you doing?!‘ I was like, ‚You better get up here! I don’t play the fighting games.‘

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

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

Marriage and family are ordained of God. The family is the most important social unit in time and in eternity. Under God’s great plan of happiness, families can be sealed in temples and be prepared to return to dwell in His holy presence forever. That is eternal life!

My dad was never married. He was kind of a rolling stone. But he was never disrespectful. At the same time, even though he had women in his life when I was a kid, there wasn’t any consistency.

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.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it’s a better way of telling the stories.

Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.

I searched for years I found no love. I’m sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.

I make decisions all day, so it’s nice for a woman like me to go to dinner and have the man take the menu and say, ‚Let me order.‘ Other women would be offended by that, but I’m like, ‚Good. Because I can’t make one more decision today.‘ I want someone to rub my feet without being asked.

To be social is to be forgiving.

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

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

There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other.

Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.

Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.

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

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

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

People were saying that David Geffen and I had gotten married and it just blew me away. Not that they thought I was gay, but that they thought I could land a guy that hot.

Your friend is your needs answered.

I’m not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself – then they get to say ‚See, you did it yourself.‘

Every once in a while I get the highly inappropriate proposal which is like, ‚Wow, Really! You don’t even know me and I don’t know you at all, and you want that to happen? Tonight? Ok, I get off work at 7.30.‘

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love – first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

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

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

A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.

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

I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can’t get my wife to go swimming.

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

I’ve been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she’ll kill me.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

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.

For me, it’s about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It’s where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that’s very important to me.

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

Single life is so overrated.

No matter how beautiful a woman might be, you’re always threatened by certain… You’re always threatened by other women, period.

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

I always wanted to be loved.

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

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing – hopefully.

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

For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.