I’m a human being and I fall in love and sometimes I don’t have control of every situation.

When we make progress quickly, it feeds our emotions. Then, when there’s a period of waiting or we hit a plateau, we find out how committed we really are and whether we’re going to see things through to the finish or quit.

There is no love of life without despair of life.

I love Manchester. Everyone knows that – I have said it many times. Manchester is in my heart.

Bob Dylan is like an alien on this earth, and I love him! I cried when I saw him play live because I was so close to him.

I don’t know what’s better gettin‘ laid or gettin‘ paid.

I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background, and I think the greatest thing to do is to pray that God will give you love for them, and I do.

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it’s just the thing that every man wants – to have a son and heir.

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It’s very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

As apostles and prophets, we are concerned not only for our children and grandchildren but for yours as well – and for each of God’s children.

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

It’s a funny thing that when a man hasn’t anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

Of all nature’s gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

The mind of a 19-year-old is very different from the mind of a 26-year-old. You grow. You get into better relationships. You experience more, meet more people, better people. But when you’re in a dark hole at an earlier point in your life – you write about the mindset you’re in at that moment.

When you’re traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonically, lyrically, visually. Conversations with women with different accents and stories told in those accents. I like to create characters based on different people I’ve met, and relationships. I like to tell stories loosely based on real-life events.

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

Life’s too short to deal with other people’s insecurities.

To get a hold on boys you must be their friend.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.

No matter what, I always make it home for Christmas. I love to go to my Tennessee Mountain Home and invite all of my nieces and nephews and their spouses and kids and do what we all like to do – eat, laugh, trade presents and just enjoy each other… and sometimes I even dress up like Santa Claus!

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

I love performing, you know, because, like I say, I’m a ham for this stuff.

There’s a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It’s deceptive because when you have pride, you’re usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn’t sell well.

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

These people are very unskilled in arms… with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

There’s a part of you – the born-again part, your spirit – that’s dead to sin. That’s why it bothers you now when you sin. The ‚wilderness‘ part of you – your soul – is your unrenewed mind, out-of-control emotions, and stubborn will.

The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy – the one that’s absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.

I’m all about peace. I’m all about unity. I’m all about love.

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin‘ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

Many people tell me that they don ‚t know what to feel when they finish one of my books because the story was dark, or complicated, or strange. But while they were reading it, they were inside my world and they were happy. That’s good.

Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish.

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

Pay attention, don’t let life go by you. Fall in love with the back of your cereal box.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

If you cry over a guy, then your friends can’t date him. It can’t even be considered.

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn’t they’d be married too.

One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.

‚Mean‘ is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt like I was being hit in the face every time this person would take to their computer.

Well, all comedy starts with anger. You get angry, and its never for a good reason, right? You know its not a good reason. And then you try and work it from there.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

When people get married young, you don’t really understand the true definition of marriage.

I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.

I feel, as a songwriter, it’s one of the hardest things to do – to sit down and say how you feel.

When you face a ‚performance‘ that might provoke the ‚I’m scared‘ response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It’s more fun than ‚Dancing with the Stars!‘

There are certain nights you and your image just aren’t in the same bed.

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.