Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

My home is in Heaven. I’m just traveling through this world.

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

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.

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

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love – first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

I love food.

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone’s wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I’ve had. And now that I’m in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won’t be half as much anger as there was.

Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

Take my wife… Please!

I was 14, and I fell in love with Pink Floyd.

Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that’s stripped down.

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

I don’t think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It’s essentially just a long narrative form. What you use that long narrative form for can be very different.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

There’s love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we’re alone in our heads.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

All mankind love a lover.

Everything is clearer when you’re in love.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don’t let anyone persuade you to say it.

When I get married, it’ll be no secret.

When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.

Though lovers be lost, love shall not.

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

The only big things I’ve purchased are my dad’s heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.

The key to winning is choosing to do God’s will and loving others with all you’ve got.

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.

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.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Truth, according to the Christian faith, is God’s love for us in Jesus Christ. Therefore, truth is a relationship.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.

Love to everybody who is out there progressing and taking things to the next level.

Love is trembling happiness.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can’t have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I’d rather not be in a cage. I’d rather be dead. And it’s real simple. And I think it’s not that uncommon.

Every relationship should eventually become a long-term relationship. Any director that I meet now isn’t just a director. He’s potentially a friend, and someone I can call to do a project that I want or that I have.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops… If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.

Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that.

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.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

Motives reveal why we do what we do, which is actually more important to God than what we’re doing.

You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.

After all, life hasn’t much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair.