Relationships in general make people a bit nervous. It's about trust. Do I trust you enough to go there?

I don't know any of us who are in relationships that are totally honest - it doesn't exist.

You show your vulnerability through relationships and those feelings are your soft spot. You need to have a soft spot.

I didn't have a financial need and I wasn't very gifted at relationships. I probably was more like what we think of boys as being: hard to pin down and wary of commitment.

Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion.

People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and that they'd much rather do other kinds of things. But most people are afraid of rejection.

Treasure your relationships not your possessions.

It seems essential in relationships and all tasks that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

Assumptions are the termites of relationships.

Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

My dad's gay experiences really had a very positive influence on me and my straight relationships - how to better accept all the weirdness and ambiguity and ups and downs and paradoxes. I knew from the beginning I was writing about love.

I had lost relationships with my dad my brother and sister and I was just like you know what this is definitely the time to just get it together and so that's what I did.

Traits like humility courage and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships.

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

I really love rap music. I grew up in the '80s and '90s with Public Enemy N.W.A. LL Cool J - I'm a hip-hop encyclopedia. But I got kind of frustrated with the chauvinistic side of rap music the one that makes it hard to write songs about love and relationships.

I haven't ever really relied on relationships with guys. They come around and it's cool but it's never been a big thing. I guess I've just been really distracted by work.

These sites have torn down the geographical divide that once prevented long distance social relationships from forming allowing instant communication and connections to take place and a virtual second life to take hold for its users.

Making movies is not rocket science. It's about relationships and communication and strangers coming together to see if they can get along harmoniously productively and creatively. That's a challenge. When it works it's fantastic and will lift you up. When it doesn't work it's almost just as fascinating.

Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

It sounds so trite but in relationships you have to communicate.

The creative destruction that social media is currently unleashing will change more than technology or the leader board of the Fortune 100. It is driving a qualitative shift in the nature of relationships between brands and their customers.

I just think that sometimes we hang onto people or relationships long after they've ceased to be of any use to either of you. I'm always meeting new people and my list of friends seems to change quite a bit.

You have to stick out the toughness of the business and form relationships with the people in it.