My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

Any man who doesn’t love his mama can’t be no friend of mine.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

What people see on court is another side of me; it’s not me.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

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.

Country radio is much more like a family than any other group of people that I’ve met.

Trying to meet new women, it’s always a little more difficult as opposed to calling somebody I knew that’s single and trying to rebuild that connection.

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

My father wasn’t a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher – one of those Victorians, hard as iron – but my dad was tough enough.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

I thank God I’m myself and for the life I’m given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one’s own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.

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

Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

How do I know about a man’s needs for a sex symbol? I’m a girl.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

A man’s own manner and character is what most becomes him.

We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.

I am a bit of a solitude person – a solitary personality. I like being on my own. I don’t have any major friendships or relationships with people.

I’ve done the bad-boy thing. It was fun for a good three months. But the thing about bad boys is, you have to keep in mind, you’re never gonna marry a bad boy.

Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.

I design things to help people to hopefully express their personality.

Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.

I don’t keep people around me that aren’t family. You don’t get to stay. Unless you’re eating at the table with us, you’re not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.

My wife and I don’t compete. We know each other’s preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That’s what friends do.

If you get down and quarell everyday, you’re saying prayers to the devil, I say.

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, ‚Did you sleep good?‘ I said ‚No, I made a few mistakes.‘

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison.

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

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related.

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

It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.

I think that it’s okay to be mad at someone who hurt you. This isn’t about, like, the pageantry of trying to seem like nothing affects you.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s.

I used to take my short stories to girls‘ homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?

I worked with someone who told me they’d never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

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.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

I’m more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

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.