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

It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don’t know if it’s possible forever and ever.

Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

Know your worth! People always act like they’re doing more for you than you’re doing for them.

We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn’t a matter of political correctness. It’s a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.

The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it’s so easy to be motivated.

If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

The astronomer will believe that the most erratic comet will yet accomplish its journey and revisit our sphere; but we give up those for lost who have not wandered one-half the distance from the centre of light and life.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

Life is not a spectator sport. If you’re going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you’re wasting your life.

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

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

The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.

MySpace is my wife… Facebook is my mistress.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I’ve never been in love before – I don’t really know? I think I have. I guess it’s subjective in that way.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

I love the ending of a movie where two people end up together. Preferably if there’s rain and an airport or running or a confession of love.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

Life is a matter of really tough choices.

It’s life isn’t it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

I knew I was blessed with a gift of having both parents.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

As a former resident with strong personal and ministry ties to the North Star State, I pray that the good people of Minnesota will show their support for God’s definition of marriage, between a man and a woman.

The reason that I’m here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That’s my truth.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death’s the other.

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

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

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

I purposely don’t talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But I do say that I want you to be blessed. To me, prosperity is having health, having great children, having peace, good relationships. It’s not about the money.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Here’s what I’ve learned about deal-breakers. If you have enough natural chemistry with someone, you overlook every single thing that you said would break the deal.

Bread without flesh is a good diet, as on many botanical excursions I have proved. Tea also may easily be ignored. Just bread and water and delightful toil is all I need – not unreasonably much, yet one ought to be trained and tempered to enjoy life in these brave wilds in full independence of any particular kind of nourishment.

Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone’s singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person. That’s the only way I can find an explanation for why 55,000 people would want to come see me sing.

Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God’s divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego’s insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you.

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it’s to have any meaning in this world – and stop being its apologist.

Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.

Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

My whole family have all been through a difficult time. My focus is my children, our children.

I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.