"In December 1998, I considered myself an expert on love. I was almost a year into a relationship, one that had grown more slowly than I had wished, but once it flowered it was much more stimulating than any marriage or relationship I had known." - Jane SmileyTweet
"I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race." - Ezra CornellTweet
"The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do." - John RuskinTweet
"My dad taught me true words you have to use in every relationship. Yes, baby." - Star JonesTweet
"It takes a lot of experience of life to see why some relationships last and others do not. But we do not have to wait for a crisis to get an idea of the future of a particular relationship. Our behavior in little every incidents tells us a great deal." - Eknath EaswaranTweet
"I'm receiving 300 to 500 letters every week from people telling me that God used my stories to save their marriage or to introduce them to Christ or to heal a relationship that had been broken." - Karen KingsburyTweet
"I am an optimist about the UK. We have been involved in trade with our European partners, which we will always be doing whatever this relationship is. We are a member of the EU. That gives us benefits. But we have to figure out where that is going. In the world, we are a global trader already." - Iain Duncan SmithTweet
"I definitely think anything I'd be in now is a permanent relationship." - Kim KardashianTweet
"There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship." - Iris MurdochTweet
"I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas." - Norman McLarenTweet