You can’t trust very many people.

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.

Every once in a while I get the highly inappropriate proposal which is like, ‚Wow, Really! You don’t even know me and I don’t know you at all, and you want that to happen? Tonight? Ok, I get off work at 7.30.‘

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it’s with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.

Friends are thieves of time.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night’s date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn’t think of looking at another woman.

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

We’re all sinners. Everybody you meet all over the world is a sinner.

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.

Everybody’s got that split between the beautiful and fragile, the hard and the dark.

Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.

Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it’s a green light.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.

I don’t have to ‚freedom-kiss‘ my wife when what I really want to do is French-kiss her.

Love is a serious mental disease.

All of the people in my life whom I consider to be close friends or colleagues are good thinkers.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.

Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.

Only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.

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

You don’t sign up for a divorce when you get married. It’s very painful. But it’s taught me a great deal about myself.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

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.

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

Those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

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.

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.

Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.

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

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

I’ve got a crush on my backing singer.

My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.

What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.

I’ve found that men I’ve dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I’ve found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren’t competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been… challenging.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing – hopefully.

In one day, I have times where I’m feeling great, I feel like I love my life, and then 2:30 rolls around and I’m the angriest man alive. My wife sees it.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

I don’t keep people around me that aren’t family. You don’t get to stay. Unless you’re eating at the table with us, you’re not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.

It always seems odd to me that the fundamental laws of physics, when discovered, can appear in so many different forms that are not apparently identical at first, but, with a little mathematical fiddling, you can show the relationship.

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?

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.

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

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

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

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.