Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone’s wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

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.

Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all.

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

I’ve known and continue to know every one of these major world leaders by their first names, and I have access to them.

Lovers often invest their first meetings with retrospective significance, as if to try to conjure the elements of the numinous out of the stubborn witness of the everyday.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend’s folly.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

Love… it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

I think we all change each other’s paths. I don’t know which law idea that is in physics, but I don’t think any of us can live without affecting one another.

Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there’s gonna come a time that you’re gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

If I’d married someone in show business, there’d be too much competition.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

To me, if you’re trying to impress a girl, get a date, they’re gonna like that more because you’re a confident guy. That’s what it comes down to.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

I don’t eat with beautiful women alone.

Truth is what works.

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don’t give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women… no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

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

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure – the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.

I’m happiest with my family around me.

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

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

There may not be one Truth – there may be several truths – but saying that is not to say that reality doesn’t exist.

Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.

In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.

Love can do much, but duty more.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

Alimony – the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.

I am who I am today because of my mother.

Creative people don’t behave very well generally. If you’re looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you’re gonna be depressed real fast. I don’t have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She’s my first priority.

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.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

My love is a hummingbird sitting that quiet moment on the bough, as the same cat crouches.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we’re even alive at all.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

I’ve never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I’ve only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

My friends, there are no friends.

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.