Ultimately, who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business.

Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.

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.

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

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

Every man’s reputation proceeds from those of his own household.

Eating is so intimate. It’s very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you’re inviting a person into your life.

I had this child, and it destroyed my family.

Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.

I know that I’m not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don’t know how not to.

Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else’s ideas of who you can or can’t become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a ‚Keep Out‘ sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.

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

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

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.‘

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

What I tell my kids is, ‚I’m preparing you for college and for life. So, having independence, knowing how to set your own boundaries, figuring out how to make that balance. We still have screen-time rules.‘

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

We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.

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.

I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone’s inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

We do not judge the people we love.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

I don’t have to ‚freedom-kiss‘ my wife when what I really want to do is French-kiss her.

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

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

I mean, families are weird.

I thank God I’m myself and for the life I’m given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.

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.‘

I do not recognize the right of the public to break in the front door of a man’s private life in order to satisfy the gaze of the curious… I do not think it right to dissect living men even for the advancement of science. So far as I am concerned, I prefer a post mortem examination to vivisection without anaesthetics.

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another.

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it’s time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

I’ll never feel comfortable taking a strong drink, and I’ll never feel easy smoking a cigarette. I just don’t think those things are right for me.

I have a very good family. I’m very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It’s one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.

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

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Let it be our delight to find our society in the circle of which Jesus is the center, and let us make those our friends who are the friends of Jesus.

It isn’t necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.

I always wanted a family.

I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals.

It’s dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you’re me. Or when you’re anyone in the public eye.

I’m standing behind a wall of jokes. You don’t know about my personal life, my girlfriends, or what I do when I’m not on the road. There’s this guy, this comedian, and this is how he thinks, but people really don’t know anything about me.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it’s almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.

There’s always been a lot of information about your activities. Every phone number you dial, every credit-card charge you make. It’s long since passed that a typical person doesn’t leave footprints.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

Every single one of the guys that I’ve written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.

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.

Women may fall when there’s no strength in men.