I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we’re even alive at all.

We have not yet reached the goal but… we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.

All missionaries, younger and older, serve with the sole hope of making life better for other people.

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

I don’t think there’s an option for me to fall in love slowly or at medium speed. I either do, or I don’t.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I’m not leading them to some false God or something like that.

I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

My husband is everything to me and without him it’s just not the same.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

You pay a certain penalty for going your own way. A lot of people think you’re nuts, and you’re not as popular with girls as you should be.

When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.

Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.

You don’t tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear – kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor – with the cry of grave national emergency.

The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

Wouldn’t it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

All men hate the nagging.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

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

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.

To me, if you’re trying to impress a girl, get a date, they’re gonna like that more because you’re a confident guy. That’s what it comes down to.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

It’s a funny thing that when a man hasn’t anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.

You gotta understand: I believe a woman should praise the man, the king. If you holding it down for your woman, I feel like the woman should praise. And the man should praise the queen.

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

My thing is this; if I’m sick enough to think it, then I’m sick enough to say it.

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

All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?

People tell me that they are so hopeful when they see me and other children ‚school-striking,‘ and they say, ‚Oh the children are going to save us.‘ But no, we aren’t. We are too young to be able to do that. We don’t have time to wait for us to grow up and fix this in the future.

I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.

The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth.

In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.

I don’t have any secrets I need kept any more.

Our focus needs to be less on what our legacy’s going to be or how we can control each other and more how we can give to each other.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

Love is an interesting thing.

Few are drawn to the person whom others avoid and neglect; people gather around those who have already attracted interest.

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

I think I have a certain respect for people, you know. And I guess a lot of times I expect that respect to go both ways.

My fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids‘ reaction to that divorce.

Don’t get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.

Obviously, you go through a lot of emotional turmoil in a divorce.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.

Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away.

Marriage is scary to me, man.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.