Love can do much, but duty more.

That is what fame is, isn’t it? To get the world to fall in love with you.

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.

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there’s too much fraternizing with the enemy.

But there is a difference between cozying up to power and being close to power.

So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we’re blood.

I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don’t know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.

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.

I kind of love Cole Miller.

A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether there is any love for the church in the hearts of those who pay so much attention to the scandals.

Fear is real, but so is love.

Democracy is our commitment. It is our great legacy, a legacy we simply cannot compromise. Democracy is in our DNA.

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

If you’re talking to a man who wouldn’t fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you’re talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

I would be married, but I’d have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

I’m the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that’s horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

I’ve… been accused of being involved with every man I’m ever seen with or worked with. Maybe I have, maybe I ain’t. I never tell if I have.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.

The public doesn’t mind people living together without being married, providing they don’t overdo it.

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

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.

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

My sorrow, when she’s here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

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

I am a very emotional guy. What I love, I do with all I have.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.

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.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

I never promise anything. I don’t promise anything to my mum. I don’t promise anything to the supporters.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

I’m a girls‘ girl. I have guy friends, but the problem with having guy friends is, like, I always get linked to them, and they’ll end up in a slideshow of people I’ve apparently dated on the Internet.

Our necessities never equal our wants.

My family is very good about visiting me, and other friends as well.

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection, love is born.

We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.

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

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

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston, I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song, and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, ‚Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.‘

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.