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.

Women – always in trouble with them, but can’t live without them.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

I don’t think there’s an option for me to fall in love slowly or at medium speed. I either do, or I don’t.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.

Within one’s own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it’s to have any meaning in this world – and stop being its apologist.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

Great loves too must be endured.

I’ve known and continue to know every one of these major world leaders by their first names, and I have access to them.

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.

Our focus needs to be less on what our legacy’s going to be or how we can control each other and more how we can give to each other.

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

Keeping score is for games, not friendships.

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

If a man’s character is to be abused there’s nobody like a relative to do the business.

Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.

President Assad, I worked with. I know him reasonably well, met with him a few times, and he’s a liar.

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

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

I’m not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I’m the girl who rarely has a boyfriend.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

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

You don’t even really need a place. But you feel like you’re doing something. That is what coffee is. And that is one of the geniuses of the new coffee culture.

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn’t they’d be married too.

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.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin‘ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.

Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

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.

The more I grow in popularity, the lonelier it gets. Because you don’t really know me. You just know this part of me. You fell in love with that. But it’s way more intricate than what meets the surface.

Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

People were saying that David Geffen and I had gotten married and it just blew me away. Not that they thought I was gay, but that they thought I could land a guy that hot.

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

There’s only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I’ll get married again.

I don’t want to get into it, but if you know someone, it doesn’t mean you agree with everything they say or they do.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

Everything is clearer when you’re in love.

Men exist for the sake of one another.

It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.

I never promise anything. I don’t promise anything to my mum. I don’t promise anything to the supporters.

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

People like to hear the word ‚love.‘

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don’t give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

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.

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.