When people say ‚marriage‘ to me… It’s always a means to an end. Everyone’s so in a rush to define the relationship.

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

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

I married my best friend that happens to be a girl.

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

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

Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.

Keeping score is for games, not friendships.

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

I used to take my short stories to girls‘ homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

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

I know I have a responsibility to the fans.

Ranking among the greatest Christmas movie classics, ‚It’s a Wonderful Life‘ tells a beautiful story about the priceless value of relationships.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.

Country radio is much more like a family than any other group of people that I’ve met.

If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems.

I have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

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

A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

When you really don’t like a guy, they’re all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they’re no longer interested.

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

One of the most terrible feelings in the world is knowing that someone else doesn’t like you. Especially when you don’t know what you’ve done to deserve it.

You can be committed to Church but not committed to Christ, but you cannot be committed to Christ and not committed to church.

I never thought I’d have children; I never thought I’d be in love, I never thought I’d meet the right person. Having come from a broken home – you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don’t look for them.

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

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

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

I always keep my guard up with guys and I guess that can get in the way sometimes. I can make them go through hell.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

Wherever the enemy wants to fight, we will follow him to the ends of the Earth. We’ll adapt, we’ll train, we’ll advise, we’ll mentor, and we’ll fight, and we’ll fight well.

It’s always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you’re seeing the most beautiful thing on God’s Earth.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

Mad or glad, Mr. Reagan is head over heels in love with Mrs. Reagan and can’t even imagine a world without her – He loves her.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

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

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

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

My friends are my estate.

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.

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.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

In the ’50s, too many women, even though they were very smart, they tried to make the man feel that he was brainier. It was a sad thing.

When a father puts in long hours at work, he’s praised for being dedicated and ambitious. But when a mother stays late at the office, she’s sometimes accused of being selfish, neglecting her kids.

I’ve done a lot of things I’m not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that.

I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.