No one loves the man whom he fears.

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?

If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it’s cool that happens.

Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.

Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it’s time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain – we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

I’ve missed out on a lot of things, going out with friends.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

There’s nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It’s a thing no married man knows anything about.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

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.

You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

I spend a lot of time just, you know, with my girlfriend and my dog. And I mean, we don’t have a lot of furniture in our house, so it’s really simple. And we’re trying to build products for everyone in the world, right. And you don’t want to get isolated to do that.

Do not rebuke mockers, or they will hate you; rebuke the wise, and they will love you.

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women… no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.

Friend, there’s no greater investment in life than in being a people builder. Relationships are more important than our accomplishments.

When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts.

We all have two lives: an inner life and an outer life. Your inner life is your soul life, which includes your mind, will and emotions. Your outer life is your physical life. And while God cares about every detail of your life, He is more concerned with your inner life than your outer life.

I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Brad was a huge surprise to me. I think we were both the last two people who were looking for a relationship. I certainly wasn’t. I was quite content to be a single mom with Mad.

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

The truth is God created us to have relationship with us. He wants to love us and take care of us, and He wants us to love Him. That’s where our walk with Christ has to start.

If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!

The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

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

We all die, we all get sick, we all feel hunger and lust and pain, and therefore human life is consistent from one generation to the other. We all – most of us, anyway – want connections with other people and spend our lives looking for them.

People are underestimating the force of angry kids.

Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.

I’m such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.

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

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

I definitely don’t think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.

I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.

I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire.

I’ve learned that we all change constantly. It’s rare to find that person who is growing with you in the same way at the same time, who encourages you to grow.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

I feel like I’m the kind of guy that would have kids before getting married. The first thing would be kids.

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared. And the country’s scared.

For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don’t think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I’m with them.