There’s nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It’s a thing no married man knows anything about.

You don’t want to live your life and then meet someone. You want to share your life with someone. That’s what I’m missing right now.

I know I’m talented, but I wasn’t put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but it’s not where it begins and ends.

Sometimes you can’t prioritise family and you feel guilty.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to us than Elves, or even than Dwarves. Of old they spoke the languages of Men, after their own fashion, and liked and disliked much the same things as Men did. But what exactly our relationship is can no longer be discovered.

You don’t sign up for a divorce when you get married. It’s very painful. But it’s taught me a great deal about myself.

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

I’ve got a crush on my backing singer.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

I’ve had no contact with my daughter for years. That’s her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don’t want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.

Take my wife… Please!

I don’t like being alone.

Barack knows the American Dream because he’s lived it, and he wants everyone in this country to have that same opportunity, no matter who we are or where we’re from or what we look like or who we love.

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

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

We never love a person, but only qualities.

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

I never promise anything. I don’t promise anything to my mum. I don’t promise anything to the supporters.

Mostly, my flying has been solo, but the preparation for it wasn’t. Without my husband’s help and encouragement, I could not have attempted what I have. Ours has been a contented and reasonable partnership, he with his solo jobs and I with mine. But always with work and play together, conducted under a satisfactory system of dual control.

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.

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.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.

I think I have had so much blessing – I’ve had my brother, who was brilliant – I think my family came closest to making a genius when they made my brother – Bailey was just all of that. He loved me.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

It’s a funny thing that when a man hasn’t anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

I’m committed to the fight game.

Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can’t be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.

Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural.

I always keep my guard up with guys and I guess that can get in the way sometimes. I can make them go through hell.

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what’s really happening to me, even if it’s a tough pill to swallow for people around me… I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

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.

Arthur Miller wouldn’t have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.

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

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.

Friends accept you the way you are.

She would have thrived as a grandmother. I know how much she would have contributed to their lives, and I am sad they will miss out on that.

If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain – we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell – you see, I have friends in both places.

Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.

If someone lies, well, you had a choice to trust that person or not. I think the way my father raised me, well, he trusted everybody. And that worked for him.

I used to take my short stories to girls‘ homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?

I don’t hate women – they just sometimes make me mad.

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.

Never get married in college; it’s hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you’ve already made one mistake.

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

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.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

Single life is so overrated.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.