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

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!‘

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it’s almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

What’s really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.

God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you’d would wake up times and hope that the next day you’d be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.

You can think of the entire Internet as a place where ideas embodied in cyberspace are having a war, and it’s not much different than the war of gods in heaven, which has been taking place since there’s been human beings.

We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

Oh, my mama was awesome. Very strict, overreligious, loved the Lord, loved rules. But she had to be that way because of where we were growing up, the neighborhood I was from.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

Rocks and waters, etc., are words of God, and so are men. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love.

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

Maria is the best reason to come home.

People like music when they’re in love, but they don’t need it as much. You need music when you’re missing someone or you’re pining for someone or you’re forgetting someone or you’re trying to process what just happened.

Instruments sound interesting, not because of their sound, but because of the relationship a player has with them. Instrumentalists build a rapport with their instruments, which is what you like and respond to.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.

Where love is, there God is also.

Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

Remember that the revolution is what is important, and each one of us, alone, is worth nothing.

I feel like the thing we can do is celebrate people doing great work and create more cultural momentum and awareness that this is an important thing in the world. So when the next economic crisis hits and people are talking about where to cut from the budget, science isn’t the thing.

I don’t want enemies. I want friends, and I want them in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and loving whoever they want to.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

It’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well.

I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.

Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

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

I’m not claiming divinity. I’ve never claimed purity of soul. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can… But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

We do not judge the people we love.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.

If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England – you couldn’t have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.

I think the worst part about a breakup sometimes, if one could choose a worst part, would possibly be if you get out of a relationship, and you don’t recognize yourself because you changed a lot about you.

I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

I don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything. If you don’t write stories you love, you’ll never make it. If you don’t write stories that other people love, you’ll never make it.

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.

People like to hear the word ‚love.‘

If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.

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

For victory in life, we’ve got to keep focused on the goal, and the goal is Heaven.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

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.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

I always wanted a family.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.