When you think about it, three of our biggest financial decisions in life are made at times of peak emotional excitement: deciding to get married, buying a home, and having kids.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

If your mom cries a lot, you probably cry a lot. It’s what you learn.

I don’t hate women – they just sometimes make me mad.

A relationship can give you a gut wrenching feeling sometimes. It’s a real emotional ride.

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

I always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don’t believe in the whole thing of just using other people’s money. I don’t think that’s right. I’m not going to ask other people to invest in something if I’m not prepared to do so myself.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

I have practically no private life. I’m already used to this and ready for it. Yes, sometimes it is hard, but it is the choice I made.

I want the reader to feel something is astonishing – not the ‚what happens‘ but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me.

Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you’re heartbroken, but tomorrow you’ll be in love again.

Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone – a memory.

Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.

Hatred is settled anger.

Boys do cry, but I don’t think I shed a tear for a good chunk of my teenage years.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

My wife has about everything I can think of.

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

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.

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.

I’m a songwriter. Everything affects me.

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.

Well, all comedy starts with anger. You get angry, and its never for a good reason, right? You know its not a good reason. And then you try and work it from there.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

To a guy like me, a laugh is full of information.

No one loves the man whom he fears.

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

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.

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

When the kids are laughing in the audience, I tear up, I’m so happy I did a nice thing.

I feel, as a songwriter, it’s one of the hardest things to do – to sit down and say how you feel.

I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.

Money for me today does not really matter.

I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying.

Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn’t get some of that stuff out.

Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.

When I was married, I definitely went through a lying period.

Too many people spend money they haven’t earned to buy things they don’t want to impress people they don’t like.

I have noticed… that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

All emotion is involuntary when genuine.

When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.

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.

The one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to convince people to take out second mortgages on their home so they can go on vacation. That’s approaching evil.

Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

‚Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

I just don’t like mutual funds. I think they’re a rip-off.

Hatred is inveterate anger.

I declared bankruptcy, and that was the worst thing I ever should have done.

Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.