It is necessary to fall in love… if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I’d be a damn‘ fool if they weren’t.

Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own.

Every single one of the guys that I’ve written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.

Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.

Olympics for me is love, peace, united.

We’re so immaturely cynical as a culture. We’re not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they’re stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another.

I’m not a real movie star. I’ve still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

I love to play. And fortunately, I don’t know a lot of musicians that suck. I know a bunch of really good ones, and they’re always up for playing.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

I don’t really know that much about love, it turns out.

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it’s about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that all science is a tool, and we use our tools not to actualise what we know, but to implement how we feel.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

People were saying that David Geffen and I had gotten married and it just blew me away. Not that they thought I was gay, but that they thought I could land a guy that hot.

Basically my wife was immature. I’d be at home in the bath and she’d come in and sink my boats.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

I’ve never had a divorce, but I’ve seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can’t write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I’m able to kind of express it, or their joy.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn’t enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart’s the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

I have all the emotions that everyone has; it just appears that I don’t.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

I love my friends and my past, and it’s made me who I am.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Funny is the world I live in. You’re funny, I’m interested. You’re not funny, I’m not interested.

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken. More: You have ceded them power.

When you really don’t like a guy, they’re all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they’re no longer interested.

If you get something right, you really feel it, right in your chest, on stage. I think it’s an incomparable experience.

The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

I make friends faster and easier than journalists.

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

Sucking up to the biggies won’t get us anywhere.

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.

Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since, when death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God.

A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people’s happiness.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world… Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.

Women. They are a complete mystery.