Women. They are a complete mystery.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

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.

All mankind love a lover.

Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don’t mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That’s not power. That’s just corruption.

My friends are my estate.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

I’ve missed out on a lot of things, going out with friends.

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.

If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn’t make your house look any better.

The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.

It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

Although the big word on the left is ‚compassion,‘ the big agenda on the left is dependency.

I can imagine it’s hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn’t know.

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

I think I have a certain respect for people, you know. And I guess a lot of times I expect that respect to go both ways.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see – or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

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

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

My wife has about everything I can think of.

For some reason, I have better luck when I work with women. I guess I have a good sense of sisterhood.

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

I worked with someone who told me they’d never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.

A president has an inescapable responsibility to provide direction: What are we trying to achieve? What are we trying to prevent? Why? To do that, he has to both analyze and reflect.

Immigration laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them.

Is it not important to find out how to listen not only to what is being said but to everything – to the noise in the streets, to the chatter of birds, to the noise of the tramcar, to the restless sea, to the voice of your husband, to your wife, to your friends, to the cry of a baby?

There are always people always asking you for something. But I feel like I have a foundation. I have a supporting cast where it doesn’t bother me too much.

I don’t usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this ‚hopey changey stuff,‘ she was right: there was nothing there.

Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.

If I think too hard about a relationship, I’ll talk myself out of it.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

I can’t deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you.

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.

I’d love to date somebody cool, fun, funny.

Issues are never simple. One thing I’m proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

I sleep people. I put people unconscious. I’m stating facts.

I was enjoying myself writing, because I don’t know what’s going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You don’t know at all what you’re going to find there. That can be thrilling when you read a book, especially when you’re a kid and you’re reading stories.

I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it’s my mind.

We’re not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.

I read the book of Job last night, I don’t think God comes out well in it.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

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.