It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to us than Elves, or even than Dwarves. Of old they spoke the languages of Men, after their own fashion, and liked and disliked much the same things as Men did. But what exactly our relationship is can no longer be discovered.

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

I’ve never been a boyfriend kind of girl.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I’d worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: ‚Don’t hide these things from me. I’d rather you ask me these things straight out, and I’ll answer all your questions.‘

The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.

I met my husband before I became a star, and he doesn’t care about any of it.

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.

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do. Real brains don’t do that.

All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

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

Few are drawn to the person whom others avoid and neglect; people gather around those who have already attracted interest.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

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.

I never fall in love.

Your friend is your needs answered.

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

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

Like associates with like.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

The average Hollywood film star’s ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

Between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four, I must have read a whole library.

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.

People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like – that’s a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.

It’s hard for anybody who’s been with me not to feel starved for affection when I’m making love to my ideas. Maybe it’s not meant for me to settle down and be married.

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.

Men want to make women happy.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.

When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

Really, who you are is defined by the people who you know – not even the people that you know, but the people you spend time with and the people that you love and the people that you work with. I guess we show your friends in your profile, but that’s kind of different from the information you put in your profile.

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love – first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

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

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

I cannot live without books.

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

The successful men I admired all built their bodies.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

But men are men; the best sometimes forget.

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