A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

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

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

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.

The wisest hustler can suddenly fall for the worst tramp and lose all of his money on her. The hustler is aware of his own weaknesses and openings to con. This awareness is his edge.

But there is a difference between cozying up to power and being close to power.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.

I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

I’ve told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn’t kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

I know love is the answer.

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

Where love is, there God is also.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

I think ‚The Color Purple‘ is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.

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.

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

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

To be able to throw one’s self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman’s smile – that is happiness.

I would like to go back to Wales. I’m obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week dream I am back there.

I don’t know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens.

Everyone my age probably grew up listening to the ‚perreos‘ of Plan B.

I was gutted to leave my boyfriend at home when I started my tour, but taking my pillow was like taking a little bit of him with me.

It used to be the case, like you’d switch jobs, and then maybe you wouldn’t keep in touch with all the people that you knew from that old job, just because it was too hard. But one of the things that Facebook does is it makes it really easy to just stay in touch with all these people.

All you need is love.

He who hath many friends hath none.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

In fact, you couldn’t give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.

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.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

The public doesn’t mind people living together without being married, providing they don’t overdo it.

All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader.

A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.

Akron, Ohio, is my home. It will always be remembered. Akron, Ohio, is my life.

We can’t form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

I always keep my guard up with guys and I guess that can get in the way sometimes. I can make them go through hell.

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

‚Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

All men hate the nagging.

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

If I held you any closer I would be on the other side of you.