Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.

Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.

No one was more shocked or angry than I was when we didn’t find the weapons. I had a sickening feeling every time I thought about it. I still do.

Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren’t susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.

Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

Boys do cry, but I don’t think I shed a tear for a good chunk of my teenage years.

I’m so nervous. I’ve always been nervous, ever since I was a kid.

In every parting there is an image of death.

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

I make a lot of expressions constantly. I’m animated.

Love is the one wild card.

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I’m writing about New York.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

I don’t feel bitterness, I don’t feel anger towards anybody. Fighting is never emotional to me.

There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

Those movies sure got me into a rut.

I have good days and bad days.

I don’t know, I feel desperate when I sing. And I look desperate – it feels like I’m singing for my life, which makes me twitch, if that makes sense.

I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.

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.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

When I don’t feel free and can’t do what I want I just react. I go against it.

I want to be a man who is truthful and who won’t let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, ‚Here I am. This is me.‘ I feel there’s something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it’s a better way of telling the stories.

Love is an interesting thing.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

Shakespeare – I was very influenced – still am – by Shakespeare. I couldn’t believe that a white man in the 16th century could so know my heart.

I had a soft-spot in my heart for Ronald Reagan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth.

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 think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

You see, you are a spirit, you have a soul, and you live in a body. You have emotions, you have thoughts, you have a will, and you have a conscience. You are a complex being! And Jesus came to heal every single part of you. There’s not one part that He doesn’t want to make completely whole.

Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

Some people feel affronted when something they thought to be true doesn’t happen. If that’s the case, then your sense of risk is much higher, and that leads to risk aversion. You need to be able to be comfortable in uncertainty.

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

I feel upsettingly de-natured. If Penelope Cruz were one of my nurses, I wouldn’t even notice.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

It is not the body’s posture, but the heart’s attitude that counts when we pray.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.

Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.

Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!

I left Mainz after 18 years and thought, ‚Next time, I will work with a little less of my heart.‘ I said that because we all cried for a week. The city gave us a goodbye party, and it lasted a week.

Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.

God doesn’t dwell in the wooden, stony or earthen idols. His abode is in our feelings, our thoughts.

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Since I was 16, I’ve felt a black cloud hangs over me.

As I’m traveling around, I meet many small children. And when I look at a small and think how we’ve harmed this beautiful planet since I was that age, I feel a kind of desperation, anger, shame. I don’t know what I feel; I just don’t know what the emotion is.