Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

I was never a boy magnet at school. There was always the girl all the guys liked and wanted to date, but it was never me.

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

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

I think I have had so much blessing – I’ve had my brother, who was brilliant – I think my family came closest to making a genius when they made my brother – Bailey was just all of that. He loved me.

I can’t deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

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.

Mostly, my flying has been solo, but the preparation for it wasn’t. Without my husband’s help and encouragement, I could not have attempted what I have. Ours has been a contented and reasonable partnership, he with his solo jobs and I with mine. But always with work and play together, conducted under a satisfactory system of dual control.

It’s fun to be hopelessly in love. It’s dangerous, but it’s fun.

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.

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it – and sometimes three.

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

The second time around, I’ll understand that, as a husband, my wife doesn’t care about my opinions. I just need to tell her the things that will continue to help me stack the brownie points.

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

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

I was fortunate and I was lucky that I had a couple of people in my life who cared about me. I had good, loving parents.

You know what, I’m very attracted to someone who makes me laugh and is that charming. Really, I could be charmed by anyone. I’m just a sucker for somebody that is charming.

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

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

You can write a song about being in love with someone, but you don’t have to be in love with anyone.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.

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.

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

Women. They are a complete mystery.

I feel like I’m the kind of guy that would have kids before getting married. The first thing would be kids.

Dividers seek to make themselves look or feel better by making others feel worse. They damage relationships, fracture teams and organizations, and create havoc in people’s lives.

I searched for years I found no love. I’m sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.

‚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.

Of course I get hurt.

We all die, we all get sick, we all feel hunger and lust and pain, and therefore human life is consistent from one generation to the other. We all – most of us, anyway – want connections with other people and spend our lives looking for them.

Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.

My wife is already in Heaven.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

What really raises one’s indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.

Delhi means everything to me. This city has given me everything, and I love it.

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart’s the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

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

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

My wife and I are very affectionate.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since, when death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God.