It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying it's separating himself from all the others.

Marriage should be a duet - when one sings the other claps.

In marriage there are no manners to keep up and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married and another list of the reasons for their divorce you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.

Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing they marry later for another thing they die earlier.

When you make the sacrifice in marriage you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

When we ask for love we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice... and begging or pleading for love.

A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered and the smile that lights on the first born babe and assures it of a mother's love.

They're right to think that about me because I'm the person most likely to sleep with my female fans I genuinely love other women. And I think they know that.

Where love rules there is no will to power and where power predominates there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.

If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff there's got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness more compassion more joy more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.

Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.

Love seeketh not itself to please nor for itself hath any care but for another gives its ease and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.

Love consists in giving without getting in return in giving what is not owed what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based as associations for utility or pleasure are on a fair exchange.

So long as we love we serve so long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable and no man is useless while he has a friend.

The more I think about it the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love you'll never make it.

Accept that all of us can be hurt that all of us can and surely will at times fail. Other vulnerabilities like being embarrassed or risking love can be terrifying too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst take the risk.

I love America more than any other country in this world and exactly for this reason I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment or an enlarged egotism.