Young love is wild and outrageous, laughing at moderation and blinding us to common sense.

I would be married, but I’d have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

I rely on other people every day of my life.

I think any man who lets a woman pick what he should wear… I mean, you gotta draw the line somewhere as a man. I see these guys, ‚My wife told me to wear this!‘ And I just shake my head.

Everything is clearer when you’re in love.

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

‚The Story of Us‘ is about running into someone I had been in a relationship with at an awards show, and we were seated a few seats away from each other. I just wanted to say to him, ‚Is this killing you? Because it’s killing me.‘ But I didn’t. Because I couldn’t. Because we both had these silent shields up.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

I don’t really know that much about love, it turns out.

Who, being loved, is poor?

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

I think, a lot of times when you meet someone, you feel like you need to appear like you’re not interested in them so that they’ll be more interested in you. But what happens when you start showing him that you actually like him? What’s he gonna do then? Play the tape forward; how do you keep a guy like that? I don’t want to sign up for that.

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

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.

There was one incident at a movie theater where my girl got mad at these guys who were talking behind us. I never looked back there, but she was like, ‚Will you all just shut up!‘ And I just got up and moved three rows in front. She was like, ‚What are you doing?!‘ I was like, ‚You better get up here! I don’t play the fighting games.‘

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

If you’re talking to a man who wouldn’t fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you’re talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.

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.

Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

I know love is the answer.

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.

The mind of a 19-year-old is very different from the mind of a 26-year-old. You grow. You get into better relationships. You experience more, meet more people, better people. But when you’re in a dark hole at an earlier point in your life – you write about the mindset you’re in at that moment.

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

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

Love is an interesting thing.

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

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

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

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

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

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

Great loves too must be endured.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.

I mean, families are weird.

Health consists with temperance alone.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

I can’t deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you. It’s a conscious thing; it’s a common-sense thing.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

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.

I haven’t had that one great love, which is good. I don’t want that to be in the past – I want it to be in the future.

President Assad, I worked with. I know him reasonably well, met with him a few times, and he’s a liar.