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

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

The Bible is clear – God’s definition of marriage is between a man and a woman.

I don’t have time to be lonely. And I get fearful of relationships because I feel guilty about wanting someone to be completely faithful and loyal, when I can’t even give them 10 percent of the attention that they need. It’s just the reality of my time, my life, my schedule.

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone’s wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

I don’t think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be.

I didn’t have a father figure in the house.

If you check your ego at the door when it comes to comedy, you’ve got a pretty good shot at making a great movie that you can commit yourself to, you can jump off the proverbial cliff with, and have a great time, and the audiences respond to that.

The public doesn’t mind people living together without being married, providing they don’t overdo it.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

I think the perfection of love is that it’s not perfect.

I will never be happy without having someone. Going to sleep alone kills me.

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

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

He that has not got a wife is not yet a complete man.

I was never a boy magnet at school. There was always the girl all the guys liked and wanted to date, but it was never me.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what’s really happening to me, even if it’s a tough pill to swallow for people around me… I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

I make decisions all day, so it’s nice for a woman like me to go to dinner and have the man take the menu and say, ‚Let me order.‘ Other women would be offended by that, but I’m like, ‚Good. Because I can’t make one more decision today.‘ I want someone to rub my feet without being asked.

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.

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

It is the duty of every thoughtful Indian not to marry. In case he is helpless in regard to marriage, he should abstain from sexual intercourse with his wife.

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

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

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

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.

Doing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, because you feel so much pressure to do well that night. But I think everyone’s grown to accept that and so they give me my space at the show.

I have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors.

It’s true that I’ve never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

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.

We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother – but… when she became our child, the affection came.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

I know love is the answer.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It’s also the dangerous part and it’s an ugly emotion that hurts.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

He who hath many friends hath none.

I don’t like it when people who are young act like they’re 40. That’s taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you’re so mature or whatever – I don’t try to act mature. Some people might say I’m mature for my age, but it’s not something I’m trying to do, you know? I’m just me.

I have noticed… that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.

If you gonna wear the mohawk, you stick with it. You don’t just be dibby-dabbing. You make up your mind.

More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.

I think we all change each other’s paths. I don’t know which law idea that is in physics, but I don’t think any of us can live without affecting one another.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

I think that you can love people without it being the great love.

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.

It’s so much easier to like people, and to let people in, to trust them until they prove that you should do otherwise. The alternative is being an iceberg.

I’m married. My wife, Stella – a beautiful woman. She’s brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom.

Love is only one of many passions.