“Great relationships are one of the most precious treasures in life, but we must feed them regularly by putting time into them. If you find you have no time to develop and maintain strong, intimate relationships with God, with yourself, and with your family and friends, then you are absolutely too busy.” 

“Go home, and let all your relatives off the potter's wheel. You are not the potter!” 

“Brother and Sister So & So are not your standard; Jesus is.” 

“The advantage of being lovers is that we have to work hard at our relationship, because everything conspires to drive us apart. Our decision to be together has to be renewed again and again; that keeps us on our toes.” 

“I write, she wrote, that memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to see the relationship between events; we cannot gauge the consequences of our acts, and we believe in the fiction of past, present, and future, but it may also be true that everything happens simultaneously.” 

“The relation between the white and colored people of this country is the great, paramount, imperative, and all-commanding question for this age and nation to solve.” 

“Life sometimes separates people so that they can realize how much they mean to each other.”

Why do people persist in a dissatisfying relationship, unwilling either to work toward solutions or end it and move on? It's because they know changing will lead to the unknown, and most people believe that the unknown will be much more painful than what they're already experiencing.

What makes a relationship work is things in common, what makes it passionate is that things are very different.

The only way a relationship will last is if you see it as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.

Do what you did in the beginning of a relationship and there won't be an end.

“Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.” 

“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.” 

Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men’s necessities.

I have a very healthy relationship to my work, and I find that if a scene is working, no matter how intense it is, you have the catharsis on screen, and you can let it go. I think it's, if at the end of the day you feel like you haven't cracked it, that's when you go home and it's more difficult to switch off.

My relationship with American audiences is the exact same as it always has been. They never came to see my films, and they don't come now.

I have a love-hate relationship with working out. I do not enjoy the experience when I'm doing it, but I never regret it.

Men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness. 

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

Call yourself and define your relationship to your chair the way you want to, or your disability the way you want to.

Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.

There is nothing I want but your presence. In friendship, time dissolves.

Forgiveness does not mean ignoring what has been done or putting a false label on an evil act. It means, rather, that the evil act no longer remains as a barrier to the relationship. Forgiveness is a catalyst creating the atmosphere necessary for a fresh start and a new beginning.

I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.