To get a hold on boys you must be their friend.

It is fun to be in the same decade with you.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

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.

When the bank asks me about my assets, I include my friendship with Regis Philbin.

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

There are two kinds of people in this world. ‚I‘ people and ‚we‘ people. I’ve always tried to be a ‚we‘ person.

I don’t like cream puff, corny guys. Usually, they are the nice guys, the ones that won’t hurt you. They’ll pull out the chair for you and the whole nine yards. Everything is perfect and boring.

If you cry over a guy, then your friends can’t date him. It can’t even be considered.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‚understand‘ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

I’m working at trying to be a Christian, and that’s serious business. It’s like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy – it’s serious business.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

I haven’t had that one great love, which is good. I don’t want that to be in the past – I want it to be in the future.

If women were particular about men’s characters, they would never get married at all.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.

One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

Some people love so hard that they can’t control those emotions when they’re at their deepest point.

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

I’m the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that’s horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it.

There’s a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more.

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.

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

Sometimes I’ve been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.

I’m not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open.

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

You can’t be in love with a Google search.

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

Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.

One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Demonstrate to the world, there is ‚No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy‘ than a U.S. Marine.

I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Everything is clearer when you’re in love.

Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

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

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

Fame may go by and – so long, I’ve had you.

It was weird to be married; you kind of lose your identity. You’re suddenly somebody’s wife. And you’re like, ‚Oh, I’m half of a couple now. I’ve lost me.‘

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

You can’t have it all, all at once. Who – man or woman – has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

No one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert by yourself, but you are related. You cannot escape from that absolute fact. You cannot exist in isolation.

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

I still derive immense pleasure from remembering how many hod-carrying brickies were encouraged to put on lurex tights and mince up and down the high street, having been assured by know-it-alls like me that a smidgen of blusher really attracted the birds.

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.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

The more I grow in popularity, the lonelier it gets. Because you don’t really know me. You just know this part of me. You fell in love with that. But it’s way more intricate than what meets the surface.

Giving responsibility is the key to success with boys, especially with the rowdiest and most difficult boys.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.