Love is a serious mental disease.

Ever since I first came here in 1963 to fight Henry Cooper, I have loved the people of England.

Sometimes, you might meet somebody that you love that’s turning into a ‚they.‘ My key is invite them to Miami and take them to the ocean and let them jump off the boat in the ocean, on the sand bar, and cleanse off and pray and then go take a shower, and hopefully the ‚they‘ is out of you.

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I’m trying to say is I’m trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

Those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

I married my best friend that happens to be a girl.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.

I found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realise is that you’re not alone.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.

Love is trembling happiness.

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

Hear reason, or she’ll make you feel her.

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I’m upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

If someone is right for you, you’ll know it.

My friends, there are no friends.

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

I can analyze people’s intentions. Immediately. That’s just a warning. To everyone.

I’ve had sleep paralysis.

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.

Meditation helps me to calm down.

In Germany, they all thought I was a bit mental, very emotional.

Pound’s crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don’t put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.

Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

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

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

Then, when I’m in these relationships with people who are also creative, or creative in their own way, what happens is the attraction is initially there and it’s all unicorns and rainbows. And then they hate me.

These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I’d be a damn‘ fool if they weren’t.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

I didn’t have a father figure in the house.

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

A woman can’t be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can’t do it by herself.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

I had slumps that lasted into the winter.

The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.

Man is the only animal that blushes – or needs to.

The joy and love that I get from playing football are unbelievable. It is such a feeling that I want to give everything that I have got. I just enjoy it, I am living a life that I never even dreamt of.

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

I dote on his very absence.

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.

Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you’re crazy.

I really believed that fear is contagious.

Love and desire are the spirit’s wings to great deeds.

I can get where some scientists would say comedians are crazy. What you have to understand: A lot of comedians are dealing with a dark passion. A lot of these are guys coming from a tumultuous life, including myself. Some people need outlets, a way to express yourself.

There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls, but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd. Of course, I expect this, but the knife still cuts.

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.