What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

When in doubt tell the truth.

If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.

I don’t think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be.

I used to live with my grandmother. I used to wonder why the other kids in school went home with their mothers and fathers. I wanted to be the guy that got married. I wanted to be the guy with the children and the white picket fence. I never had that.

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

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.

There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.

Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

I think everyone should be with who they love.

I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don’t know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.

If you like a person you say ‚let’s go into business together.‘ Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.

To summarize, draft resistance can make use of the inegalitarian nature of American society as a technique for increasing the cost of American aggression, and it threatens values that are important to those in a decision-making position.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

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

If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.

A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

I’ve never had a divorce, but I’ve seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can’t write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I’m able to kind of express it, or their joy.

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

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

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society.

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it’s to have any meaning in this world – and stop being its apologist.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But… it is better to be good than to be ugly.

You can’t trust very many people.

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

A family looks for ways to support and inspire one another.

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

I think, a lot of times when you meet someone, you feel like you need to appear like you’re not interested in them so that they’ll be more interested in you. But what happens when you start showing him that you actually like him? What’s he gonna do then? Play the tape forward; how do you keep a guy like that? I don’t want to sign up for that.

I want to marry Arline because I love her – which means I want to take care of her. That is all there is to it. I want to take care of her. I am anxious for the responsibilities and uncertainties of taking care of the girl I love.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.

The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

I don’t really know that much about love, it turns out.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.

You can’t have a relationship with a device whose limits are unknown to you, because without limits, it keeps becoming something else.

Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today – and in fact we have forgotten.

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It’s the magic sauce.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

The relationship to one’s fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one’s striving.