Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.

I would never say I was an icon, but so many people have said I am, so I suppose I am. I mean, I can’t not be what everyone says I am. But I don’t feel like an icon.

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings – words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

Everyone loves a win in India. No one wants to lose a match. It is the cricketer who absorbs all the pressure.

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.

There are certain nights you and your image just aren’t in the same bed.

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

I just have a thing in my brain that when I’m about to do something that’s genuine or authentic, I think of it in song form. I’ll be like, ‚Yo, this is a human emotion that no one talks about.‘

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

What the heck is true love? I remember feeling, back when I was 12 and ‚going‘ with this girl, ‚Is this true love?‘

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

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

In this knowledge-worker age, it’s now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs – so the pressure to do well is really high.

I searched for years I found no love. I’m sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.

Your emotions are very unstable and should never be the foundation for direction in your life.

We all die, we all get sick, we all feel hunger and lust and pain, and therefore human life is consistent from one generation to the other. We all – most of us, anyway – want connections with other people and spend our lives looking for them.

You can draw inspiration from anything. If you’re a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you’re casually talking to says something that makes you so mad – you can create an entire scenario around that.

The word ‚happy‘ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

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

It’s not easy being young. It’s hard to know what to do.

If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it.

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

Hatred is self-punishment.

Having a child, that’s always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

When I think of the love I feel for each member of our family, I sense, to a slight degree, the love that our Heavenly Father bears for His children.

I get naturally uncomfortable when I’m put under a magnifying glass.

I wish I knew why I am so anguished.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. 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.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

I write because writing is something that I have to do. And it doesn’t matter whether people like it or not. When I write, I feel the pressure and anxiety that come with taking an empty piece of paper and trying to fill it with something from your own consciousness.

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

I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

I think love is one of the purest things you can sing about. One of the best things you can sing about.

I heard that when Christina Aguilera went back to her prom, people, like, booed her. I can’t imagine going through that. If you know that’s going to happen, why put yourself in that situation? I’d rather play for 20,000 screaming people, you know?

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

All emotion is involuntary when genuine.

It’s not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

Love is a serious mental disease.

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

There’s a part of you – the born-again part, your spirit – that’s dead to sin. That’s why it bothers you now when you sin. The ‚wilderness‘ part of you – your soul – is your unrenewed mind, out-of-control emotions, and stubborn will.

A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing.

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.

I’m tired. I’m tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I’m tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

People react to fear, not love; they don’t teach that in Sunday School, but it’s true.

If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

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

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.

I think ‚The Color Purple‘ is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe.

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.

I am not a particularly thick-skinned person.