A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‚Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.‘

At the end of the day, we started playing football because we loved it.

Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

I’m not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

When I was married, I definitely went through a lying period.

I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

I’ve known and continue to know every one of these major world leaders by their first names, and I have access to them.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I’m trying to say is I’m trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

Women may fall when there’s no strength in men.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

I’m drawn to bad romances.

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.

Every single one of the guys that I’ve written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they’ll send you the nicest clothes. Nothing better than walking into your dad’s restaurant and seeing a smile on his face and knowing that your mom and dad and your sister are real proud of you.

I want to marry Arline because I love her – which means I want to take care of her. That is all there is to it. I want to take care of her. I am anxious for the responsibilities and uncertainties of taking care of the girl I love.

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Love always ends differently and it always begins differently – especially with me.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

It’s always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you’re seeing the most beautiful thing on God’s Earth.

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

It makes me sad when I find sisters who aren’t joyful. They might smile, but with just a smile they could be flight attendants!

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one’s furniture.

I love stuff from the Holy Land. It makes me feel blessed.

The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

How much better it would be if all could be more aware of God’s providence and love and express that gratitude to Him.

The magical, supernatural force that is with us every second is time. We can’t even comprehend it. It’s such an illusion, it’s such a strange thing.

I love hugging people. I still hug everybody in my meet-and-greet lines.

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.

Remember, it’s as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

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.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

There are many events in the womb of time, which will be delivered.

My mami and papi love my music. They’re always listening to the radio waiting for one of my songs to come on. And when it does, they turn up the volume – and turn it back down when it’s over.

Crankiness is at the essence of all comedy. My wife and I were discussing the different types of cranky. There’s entertaining cranky, annoying cranky, angry cranky.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.