Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

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

All men hate the nagging.

I’m all for a good rivalry as long as lines are drawn.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

When you’re traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonically, lyrically, visually. Conversations with women with different accents and stories told in those accents. I like to create characters based on different people I’ve met, and relationships. I like to tell stories loosely based on real-life events.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.

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

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or ‚our‘ country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

Speak low, if you speak love.

A man’s only as old as the woman he feels.

You don’t sign up for a divorce when you get married. It’s very painful. But it’s taught me a great deal about myself.

My friends are my estate.

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

Really showing love requires more than just words.

It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.

It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

If women were particular about men’s characters, they would never get married at all.

There are always people always asking you for something. But I feel like I have a foundation. I have a supporting cast where it doesn’t bother me too much.

As a writer, as a creator, I’m giving you my experiences. But just take what I give you. You ain’t got to pry beyond that.

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

One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

If I think too hard about a relationship, I’ll talk myself out of it.

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

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it’s my mind.

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

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

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.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

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

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

All of the people in my life whom I consider to be close friends or colleagues are good thinkers.

When your mother asks, ‚Do you want a piece of advice?‘ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.

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

Part of me feels you can’t say you were truly in love if it didn’t last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that’s when I’ll know it’s real – because it lasted.

I was adored once too.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

The relationship to one’s fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one’s striving.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

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.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

My wife doesn’t even want to spend 2 hours with me.

House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad.

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

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.