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

In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.

My son has died of AIDS.

Being a Puerto Rican artist, I support all kinds of projects that are developed on my beautiful island that in some way or another put our Puerto Rican flag up.

I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.

The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.

I like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.

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

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.

Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It’s also the dangerous part and it’s an ugly emotion that hurts.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

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.

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

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.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.

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

I didn’t have a father figure in the house.

I’m on record that it didn’t really traumatize me to do away with some people.

At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

The Revlon Run/Walk effort to focus on women’s cancer has my wholehearted support and gratitude.

If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England – you couldn’t have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.

It is necessary to fall in love… if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.

Tears are the silent language of grief.

I don’t have a type. I don’t have a specific kind of human being. It’s just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I’ve ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that’s called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.

Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.

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

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

I always wanted a family.

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

My husband says I look like a Q-tip.

My parents are my backbone. Still are. They’re the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.

Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice.

I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

It’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well.

The two things in the world we all share in this world are laughter and pain. We’ve all got problems. The levels of those problems vary, but we’ve all got problems. When you can take things that are painful and make them funny, that’s a gift – to you and your audience.

You gotta understand: I believe a woman should praise the man, the king. If you holding it down for your woman, I feel like the woman should praise. And the man should praise the queen.

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.

As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible.

My wife and I don’t compete. We know each other’s preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That’s what friends do.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

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.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West. The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.

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