Women – always in trouble with them, but can’t live without them.

Intimates are predestined.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

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.

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

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.

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

I’ve had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it’s not what I look for when I’m seeing someone.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

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

Every time I come to Europe, I’m just as excited as I was my very first time, which was many, many years ago. I love that part of the world, and I especially love the fans.

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

Disagreement is something normal.

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.

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.

I just got to feel that whoever I marry has some real regard for me.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can’t put a dollar sign on.

Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.

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

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.

Ever since I dated a woman, I know what it is to grab a curve on a woman’s body. Skinny’s not fine when the lights are low.

Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.

I think everyone should be with who they love.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.

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.

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

My friends are my estate.

Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston, I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song, and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, ‚Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.‘

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

It has been hard for me to find it, but I have found love.

My friends, there are no friends.

Sooner or later we’re all someone’s dog.

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

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 upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

Arthur Miller wouldn’t have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they’re not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don’t care about money, and that’s not my problem.

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people’s happiness.

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It’s one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

You can’t be in love with a Google search.

Life loves the liver of it.

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

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.

I spend a lot of time just, you know, with my girlfriend and my dog. And I mean, we don’t have a lot of furniture in our house, so it’s really simple. And we’re trying to build products for everyone in the world, right. And you don’t want to get isolated to do that.