When people say ‚marriage‘ to me… It’s always a means to an end. Everyone’s so in a rush to define the relationship.

If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.

I do my job like I breathe.

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

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 popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

‚The Story of Us‘ is about running into someone I had been in a relationship with at an awards show, and we were seated a few seats away from each other. I just wanted to say to him, ‚Is this killing you? Because it’s killing me.‘ But I didn’t. Because I couldn’t. Because we both had these silent shields up.

Like associates with like.

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

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

I don’t really know that much about love, it turns out.

If you cry over a guy, then your friends can’t date him. It can’t even be considered.

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.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

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

Speak low, if you speak love.

In one day, I have times where I’m feeling great, I feel like I love my life, and then 2:30 rolls around and I’m the angriest man alive. My wife sees it.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

Intimates are predestined.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

We’re not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.

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

If you’re going to spend two years of your life on something, it has to matter to you; you have to be passionate about it.

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

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.

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.

I didn’t think Marilyn Monroe was beautiful. It used to worry me. I thought maybe I’m not put together like the other chaps.

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o‘ the flatterer.

Every once in a while I get the highly inappropriate proposal which is like, ‚Wow, Really! You don’t even know me and I don’t know you at all, and you want that to happen? Tonight? Ok, I get off work at 7.30.‘

I definitely don’t think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.

Don’t ever call a guy first. The thing they want the most is whatever they can’t have. It sounds really juvenile, but it works.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

People like music when they’re in love, but they don’t need it as much. You need music when you’re missing someone or you’re pining for someone or you’re forgetting someone or you’re trying to process what just happened.

I don’t think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.

In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged.

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.

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

It’s not possible to stop love.

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

If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.

The best way to keep one’s word is not to give it.

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Single life is so overrated.

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

The average Hollywood film star’s ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

The mind of a 19-year-old is very different from the mind of a 26-year-old. You grow. You get into better relationships. You experience more, meet more people, better people. But when you’re in a dark hole at an earlier point in your life – you write about the mindset you’re in at that moment.

We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a part of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a part of Europe.

So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you – and fight alongside you – until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.

Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.

Love is trembling happiness.

I’m pretty sure I don’t have any songs that are about how much I love someone. They’re all either about, like, ‚I hate you,‘ or ‚You make me hate me.‘

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

Obviously, you go through a lot of emotional turmoil in a divorce.

On ‚Grey’s Anatomy‘ I wouldn’t care what I was playing – I would play a corpse, ‚cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.