You know when you have a good relationship with someone when you are just perfectly happy to be quiet and just hang out and do nothing.

I'd say that if you had a strained relationship with your mom, for whatever reason, the best thing to do is be open with each other, talk it over, try and work it out somehow as opposed to just putting a wall up and pushing them away.

I'm not a relationship expert. I'm an expert on manhood.

To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe.

Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I'm concerned.

Straight men just can't imagine the bliss of being in a relationship with someone who finds farting as funny as they do.

I always say I'd rather be miserable by myself than unhappy in a relationship.

My relationship to reality has been so utterly skewed for so long that I don't even notice it any more. It's just my reality.

I certainly wanted to maintain some sense of mystery about Picard and that's why we never allowed certain situations to fully evolve, like the relationship between Picard and Beverly Crusher.

It's like a garden: Whatever you water the most will do the best. At some point, you decide whether you'll water your career or your relationship more.