The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender because this kiss already has within it that surrender.

Sometimes you could be in an unhappy relationship you are very much in love with someone, but it's making you unhappy and you think things can change and you can work it out.

People's view of cancer will change when they have their own relationship with cancer, which everyone will, at some point.

When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to make it work.

Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it.

I can't cultivate a relationship with my child if it's between takes. I tried that on a movie and realized, 'This is not going to work.' It will work some of the year, but not 12 months a year.

What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.

In no relationship at the top of any walk of life is it always easy, least of all in politics which matters so much and which is conducted in such a piercing spotlight.

I've only recently realized that I have a radically different relationship with my parents than a lot of people.

Which is, I'm an optimist that two people can be together to work out their conflicts. And that commitment, I think, might be what love is, because they both grow from their relationship.