You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

My husband calls me ‚catfish.‘ He says I’m all mouth and no brains.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

The truth is God created us to have relationship with us. He wants to love us and take care of us, and He wants us to love Him. That’s where our walk with Christ has to start.

I groan daily under a body of sin and corruption. Oh for the time when I shall drop this flesh, and be free from sin!

Desire is the essence of a man.

If every man loves his mother, he’s going to treat the ladies right, with love and respect.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

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 you need is love.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

We’re all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

We all gonna die eventually from something or other, but don’t be a wimp. Put up a good fight.

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?

The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtues consistently.

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.

All mankind love a lover.

Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.

Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

Delhi means everything to me. This city has given me everything, and I love it.

You can’t forgive without loving. And I don’t mean sentimentality. I don’t mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, ‚I forgive. I’m finished with it.‘

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.

A relationship can give you a gut wrenching feeling sometimes. It’s a real emotional ride.

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

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

I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving – by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

I just have a relationship with my imagination. It’s like my friend, almost.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.

I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me.

No matter what, I always make it home for Christmas. I love to go to my Tennessee Mountain Home and invite all of my nieces and nephews and their spouses and kids and do what we all like to do – eat, laugh, trade presents and just enjoy each other… and sometimes I even dress up like Santa Claus!

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they’re already asleep.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

Our love, our gratitude, our admiration for our men and women in uniform, our veterans and their families – all of that is bigger than any one party or any one election.

You don’t want to live your life and then meet someone. You want to share your life with someone. That’s what I’m missing right now.

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

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

Fame may go by and – so long, I’ve had you.

The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

I love America, it’s a much more permissive place.

I’ll never tell a lie. I’ll never make a misleading statement. I’ll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I’ll never avoid a controversial issue.

When you have kids, you see life through different eyes. You feel love more deeply and are maybe a little more compassionate. It’s inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting.

I don’t know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.