“It takes two men to make a brother.”
“Assumptions are the termites of relationships.”
“Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.”
“Treasure your relationships, not your possessions.”
“Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.”
“Constant togetherness is fine -- but only for Siamese twins.”
“I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.”
“Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.”
“When people are like each other they tend to like each other.”
“The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.”
“The quality of your life is the quality of your relationships.”
“Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.”
“The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands.”
“The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.”
“Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.”
“It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.”
“For me, the highest level of sexual excitement is in a monogamous relationship.”
“The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one.”
“We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.”
“I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.”
“You will always move toward anyone who increases you and away from anyone who makes you less.”
“There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.”
“Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.”
“You must go to bed with friends or whores, where money makes up the difference in beauty or desire.”
“If you're in a relationship and you want to make it work, you have to be a little selfless at times.”
“In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.”
“It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them.”
“One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.”
“People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.”
“My attachment has neither the blindness of the beginning, nor the microscopic accuracy of the close of such liaisons.”