We loved with a love that was more than love.

I love food.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

My mother loved children – she would have given anything if I had been one.

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet’s heart when caught and tangled in a woman’s body?

The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.

The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.

I knew early on that I wanted to entertain in some form. And I knew I would work as hard as anyone to do it.

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.

Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

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

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

There has to be something in every role that interests you.

I am a professional sportswriter, among other things, and I take the games seriously. It is only one of my many powerful addictions, and I don’t mind admitting any of them.

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

My wife and I are very affectionate.

I like entertaining people. I really miss it.

Confidence, as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I loved cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.

Writing is like a ‚lust,‘ or like ‚scratching when you itch.‘ Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I, for one, must get it out.

If I could, I would not do anything else. I’d just be in the studio for my whole life. I would never go to parties, events, and red carpets. I would rather just be in the studio for the whole time. I don’t even care. Nobody has to know what I look like. I just want to make music.

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.

I write for the same reason I breathe – because if I didn’t, I would die.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.

However weak we are, however poor, however little our faith, or however small our grace may be, our names are still written on His heart; nor shall we lose our share in Jesus‘ love.

A youth, when at home, should be filial and, abroad, respectful to his elders. He should be earnest and truthful. He should overflow in love to all and cultivate the friendship of the good. When he has time and opportunity, after the performance of these things, he should employ them in polite studies.

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.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.

Once I get on a puzzle, I can’t get off.

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

An artist needn’t be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

I still love football, though, and I think cooking is like football. It’s not a job, it’s a passion. When you become good at it, it’s a dream job and financially you need never to worry. Ever.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Life loves the liver of it.

If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

If you’re a surfer, you just want to surf. You don’t know if anyone’s going to see you, and you don’t really care if they see you. You just live for that feeling.

I cannot say for certain if there is such a thing as love at first sight, but I do know that the moment I first glimpsed Winnie Nomzamo, I knew that I wanted to have her as my wife.

You just don’t wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.

I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry – writing at writing.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.

In my early teens, I knew I wanted to do television production. I loved cameras, editing and producing, anything that had to do with television production. My friend had a production studio across town, and we’d go over there at night and shoot and edit. I produced my father’s televised service for 17 years.

Children make your life important.

O, you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you, and I would have ended my life – it was only my art that held me back. Ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had brought forth all that I felt was within me.

God to me is love.

Music is in my DNA!

Some people love so hard that they can’t control those emotions when they’re at their deepest point.

I met my husband before I became a star, and he doesn’t care about any of it.

When I get up and work out, I’m working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It’s just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.

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.

I’m happiest with my family around me.

I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don’t just want to possess it, it will find you.

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

I’m gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell ‚em out of the trunk of my car. I’m that kind of musician and singer.

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

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.