Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.
There is a time for risky love. There is a time for extravagant gestures. There is a time to pour out your affections on one you love. And when the time comes – seize it, don’t miss it.
The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last.
Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.
It’s better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.
Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.
Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
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.
We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.
Ultimately, we wish the joy of perfect union with the person we love.
Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?
I get along with guys; most of my friends are guys. It’s easier to trust men sometimes. I only have a few close girlfriends that I trust.
The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.
When you make his sandwiches, put a sexy or loving note in his lunch box.
Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.
My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can’t decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives.
My view is that marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. That’s the position I’ve had for some time, and I don’t intend to make any adjustments at this point… Or ever, by the way.
Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
My wife and I have been together since 1986. I graduated in ‘86 and she graduated in ’88. We began dating when she was 17. Actually she turned 18 when we started kissing and stuff.
That common cold of the male psyche, fear of commitment.
A sensible woman should be guided by her head when taking a husband, and by her heart when taking a lover.
