It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.

To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn’t be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

I never fall in love.

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

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

A family looks for ways to support and inspire one another.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

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?

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

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

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‚I’ll buy a million dollars‘ worth of love.‘ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

You can draw inspiration from anything. If you’re a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you’re casually talking to says something that makes you so mad – you can create an entire scenario around that.

‚Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.

Understanding is a two-way street.

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.

For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

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.

A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I’m writing about New York.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

To get a hold on boys you must be their friend.

Some people love so hard that they can’t control those emotions when they’re at their deepest point.

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

You can’t have it all, all at once. Who – man or woman – has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

Logically, harmony must come from the heart… Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone’s wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure – the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

You pay a certain penalty for going your own way. A lot of people think you’re nuts, and you’re not as popular with girls as you should be.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

Men exist for the sake of one another.

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

I’ve been careful in love. I’ve been careless in love. And I’ve had adventures I wouldn’t trade for anything.

I have a cult-like following because I exemplify what it is to be a human being.

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

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

To be loved is very demoralizing.

I’m sick of the tabloids‘ saying I obsess over guys. Why would you obsess over guys? They don’t like it.