All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it’s with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.

They do not love that do not show their love.

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

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don’t mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That’s not power. That’s just corruption.

Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

My work and my family are very important to me.

The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but the Pope has the duty, in Christ’s name, to remind the rich to help the poor, to respect them, to promote them.

All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.

Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.

Really, who you are is defined by the people who you know – not even the people that you know, but the people you spend time with and the people that you love and the people that you work with. I guess we show your friends in your profile, but that’s kind of different from the information you put in your profile.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, ‚I love you.‘

My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it’s so drawn from my own life and my own stories.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

My mom and my dad were both very sociable, meeting lots of interesting people.

One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.

Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery.

There’s a bond among a kitchen staff, I think. You spend more time with your chef in the kitchen than you do with your own family.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

I write songs about stuff that I can’t really get past personally – and then I write a song about it and I feel better.

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

When we’re falling in love or out of it, that’s when we most need a song that says how we feel. Yeah, I write a lot of songs about boys. And I’m very happy to do that.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader.

I just got to feel that whoever I marry has some real regard for me.

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.

Man is the only animal that blushes – or needs to.

I have a lot of other stuff to accomplish before I get to kids. Whenever the time is right, I’ll just know. If I had a girl, she’d probably be really rebellious. She would be like a bundle of karma. I would love to bring them up in Barbados.

I was not raised with wealth or resources or any social standing to speak of.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

Songwriters, you have to work – you have to wait for residuals. You have to pray that the song’s going to be a hit. And then a year later, you might get a check.

I’m an emotional person. Sometimes I can’t help it.

Patience is key for getting over a breakup. That, and trailing off your interaction after the breakup.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

I’m gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.

A relationship can give you a gut wrenching feeling sometimes. It’s a real emotional ride.

I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

A family looks for ways to support and inspire one another.

Do you not realize that the love the Father bestowed on the perfect Christ He now bestows on you?

The emotions in a song – the anger, aggression – have got to be legitimate.

All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?

I love everything about my job, except being away from the kids.

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

Ever since I first came here in 1963 to fight Henry Cooper, I have loved the people of England.

To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn’t be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.

I’ve been careful in love. I’ve been careless in love. And I’ve had adventures I wouldn’t trade for anything.

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

I wouldn’t say that anyone in fashion is on my side. I don’t think there’s anyone on my side.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

I’ve had no contact with my daughter for years. That’s her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don’t want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.

I think I have had so much blessing – I’ve had my brother, who was brilliant – I think my family came closest to making a genius when they made my brother – Bailey was just all of that. He loved me.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!

I don’t like people going behind my back.