To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

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

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.

My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people’s kids than I did my own.

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

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.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

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.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

A man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I’m afraid, have a tendency to hide our feelings.

If you talk bad about country music, it’s like saying bad things about my momma. Them’s fightin‘ words.

When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it’s Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.

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.

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

Prayer is such a basic foundation of a Christian’s relationship with God. It’s how we communicate and fellowship with Him. But a surprising number of people, young and old, new and even long-time Christians, say they’re not satisfied with their prayer life.

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

When people get married young, you don’t really understand the true definition of marriage.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

Like associates with like.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

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

Whoever won’t fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.

Here’s what I’ve learned about deal-breakers. If you have enough natural chemistry with someone, you overlook every single thing that you said would break the deal.

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

When the people you love are gone, you’re alone.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Within one’s own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Then, when I’m in these relationships with people who are also creative, or creative in their own way, what happens is the attraction is initially there and it’s all unicorns and rainbows. And then they hate me.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.

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

It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

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.

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

If I’m gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That’s how it works.

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

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

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

An honest man’s the noblest work of God.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels – men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

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

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish.