Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

There’s nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It’s a thing no married man knows anything about.

To be clear: we have fights and problems like any other couple.

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.

You send a boy to school in order to make friends – the right sort.

There are people who want to make men’s lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.

We care for each other and care about our family, and we are both working towards the same goal.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

You’ve got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.

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

We’re close friends – the American people, the Israeli people, our governments. There’s absolutely no daylight – none – between us and the Israelis on the question of Israel’s security.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

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

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.

We talk about this concept of openness and transparency as the high-level ideal that we’re moving towards at Facebook. The way that we get there is by empowering people to share and connect. The combination of those two things leads the world to become more open.

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.

When you’re in prison, you want to know that you were thought about.

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

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

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

In football, I don’t have a lot of friends. The people who I really trust, there are not many… Most of the time, I’m alone.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Love is the one wild card.

What if others suffer shipwreck, yet none that sail with Jesus have ever been stranded yet.

I remember when I was in high school I didn’t have a new dress for each special occasion. The girls would bring the fact to my attention, not always too delicately. The boys, however, never bothered with the subject. They were my friends, not because of the size of my wardrobe but because they liked me.

Every man’s reputation proceeds from those of his own household.

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.

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.

I’ve missed out on a lot of things, going out with friends.

Alimony – the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.

One of the most important things you learn from the Internet is that there is no ‚them‘ out there. It’s just an awful lot of ‚us.‘

Then, when I’m in these relationships with people who are also creative, or creative in their own way, what happens is the attraction is initially there and it’s all unicorns and rainbows. And then they hate me.

Basically my wife was immature. I’d be at home in the bath and she’d come in and sink my boats.

As I get older, I tend to put more into family than I used to.

Any artist, the work you do, if it’s a painting or if it’s a performance, you hope it translates to a common denominator with the people that they see something in their own life in there. Or they see something in somebody else’s life. That’s what’s fun about sharing art.

We’re so immaturely cynical as a culture. We’re not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they’re stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another.

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

I would just say there is one misperception of our veterans, and that is they are somehow damaged goods. I don’t buy it.

I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it’s almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.

If you’re performing music that is not who you are or where you’re at, it is painful. It’s painful for the performer and for the audience.

A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend – and he’s a priest.

Vulnerability is the birthplace of connection and the path to the feeling of worthiness. If it doesn’t feel vulnerable, the sharing is probably not constructive.

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

Really showing love requires more than just words.

I don’t feel that I’m explaining the world or teaching people anything. And I’m not trying to be a mirror, showing them what’s really going on the world. All I’m trying to do is think of stuff that’s funny, just like when I’m kidding around with my friends.

I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.

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

I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.