No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

In the flush of love’s light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston, I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song, and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, ‚Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.‘

Logically, harmony must come from the heart… Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: ‚This is my country.‘

The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we’ll fail, and sometimes we’ll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you’ll find support.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

You can’t have a relationship with a device whose limits are unknown to you, because without limits, it keeps becoming something else.

Women. They are a complete mystery.

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

Anywhere I go, there is always an incredible crowd that follows me. In Rome, as I land at the airport, even the men kiss me. I love Rome.

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 love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

My father wasn’t a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher – one of those Victorians, hard as iron – but my dad was tough enough.

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.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.

People were saying that David Geffen and I had gotten married and it just blew me away. Not that they thought I was gay, but that they thought I could land a guy that hot.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

Every single one of the guys that I’ve written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it’s almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.

At the end of the day, we started playing football because we loved it.

I have some good friends of my own who happen to be gay, and when it comes to gay, straight, or whatever, I’m for anything life-affirmative. I’m for gay power, straight power, male power, female power; everybody should feel empowered without oppressing anyone who’s different.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can’t have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I’d rather not be in a cage. I’d rather be dead. And it’s real simple. And I think it’s not that uncommon.

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

All of the people in my life whom I consider to be close friends or colleagues are good thinkers.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.

You send a boy to school in order to make friends – the right sort.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

The one badge of Christian discipleship is not orthodoxy but love.

Love is only one of many passions.

They are resilient children, but they are children, and as much as they need help to understand the hard truths in life, they also need what we all need – protection and love.

It’s so much easier to like people, and to let people in, to trust them until they prove that you should do otherwise. The alternative is being an iceberg.

I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

I’ve always loved the fans in Scotland and have a little Scottish blood of my own.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

You don’t have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

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

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.

There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

Men exist for the sake of one another.

When you’re traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonically, lyrically, visually. Conversations with women with different accents and stories told in those accents. I like to create characters based on different people I’ve met, and relationships. I like to tell stories loosely based on real-life events.

I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror – and America is honored to be their friend.

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.