We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy.

It’s always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you’re seeing the most beautiful thing on God’s Earth.

God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we’re small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you’d would wake up times and hope that the next day you’d be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.

If music be the food of love, play on.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

What’s really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

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

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

I always put myself out there. I’m not afraid to commit to something.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

That is what fame is, isn’t it? To get the world to fall in love with you.

If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me.

I had real plans for my next decade and felt I’d worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read – if not indeed write – the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger?

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

The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes – or just by staring into space.

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

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.

No matter what, I always make it home for Christmas. I love to go to my Tennessee Mountain Home and invite all of my nieces and nephews and their spouses and kids and do what we all like to do – eat, laugh, trade presents and just enjoy each other… and sometimes I even dress up like Santa Claus!

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

Hear reason, or she’ll make you feel her.

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.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend’s folly.

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.

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

I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.

They died hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

My partner Donald Trump says that married couples should always have a prenuptial agreement. True, a prenuptial is important if one partner is much richer than the other before marriage, but Kim and I don’t have one.

There’s a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It’s deceptive because when you have pride, you’re usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn’t sell well.

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

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia – to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

Tell me I have to be somewhere, and I’ll be there 20 minutes early and stay there longer than anybody else. You hold up a lot of people if you’re not on time.

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.

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.

Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston, I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song, and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, ‚Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.‘

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

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

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.

A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.

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.

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