We love things we love what they are.

There’s a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It’s deceptive because when you have pride, you’re usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn’t sell well.

I’ve made money, and I’ve been ripped off. I’ve had creative freedom, and I’ve been pressured to make hits. I have dealt with diva behavior from crazy musicians, and I have seen genius records by wonderful artists get completely ignored. I love music. I always will.

The immigration issue is, I recognize, one that generates a lot of passion, but it does not make sense for us to want to push talent out.

Actually, you have to be a little bit in love with your leading man and vice versa. If you’re going to portray love, you have to feel it. You can’t do it any other way. But you don’t carry it beyond the set.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

‚Thank you‘ is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

If I held you any closer I would be on the other side of you.

I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations.

Rap was my drug.

The important thing is to be in love with something.

In each soul, God loves and partly saves the whole world which that soul sums up in an incommunicable and particular way.

Being acknowledged for your work is always a great accomplishment, whether it’s people in my city, kids in the street, all the way up to the Grammys.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

I absolutely adore Christmas.

My music will go on forever. Maybe it’s a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you’re going to be a second-rate artist.

I know I do not exaggerate, unconsciously and unintentionally, the scantiness of my resources and the difficulty of my life… I know that, but for the mercy of God, I might easily have been, for any care that was taken of me, a little robber or a vagabond.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

Although I’ve been living in the British Virgin Islands for some time now, I have never stopped caring passionately about the U.K. and its great people.

Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It’s the same with me and writing.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

I was very worried about my mother, growing up – a lot. I do not want my children to be worried about me.

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

It was such a leap in my career when ‚Truman Show‘ came along. It’s always been a long process for me insofar as recognition goes, but that’s OK because you appreciate it when it comes.

You can’t be in love with a Google search.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

It doesn’t matter where you come from, what you have or don’t have, what you lack, or what you have too much of. But all you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to.

If one has fear, there can be no initiative in the creative sense of the word. To have initiative in this sense is to do something original – to do it spontaneously, naturally, without being guided, forced, controlled. It is to do something which you love to do.

Mad or glad, Mr. Reagan is head over heels in love with Mrs. Reagan and can’t even imagine a world without her – He loves her.

I feel that when you care about your music, taking risks is something you should do to keep things exciting.

I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few.

I believe in singing.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

I believe God’s keeping the records, and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life. Somehow, some way, God will make it up to you. It may be He protected you from an accident you never knew. You can’t give God something without God giving you more in return, whether it’s peace or joy or satisfaction.

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

The older I get, the better I understand that every day is a gift.

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet’s heart when caught and tangled in a woman’s body?

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

I’m grateful for always this moment, the now, no matter what form it takes.

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

As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.

Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it.

Jeb Bush, I appreciate you. You a leader. You a Bush.

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

I’ve always appreciated a turn of phrase.

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

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

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

God wants to help us… He loves us… we are His children. But He will not force His help on us at any time. He sees us when we struggle and fight and complain our way through things. And I believe it breaks His heart, when all we have to do is ask Him for help.

As apostles and prophets, we are concerned not only for our children and grandchildren but for yours as well – and for each of God’s children.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.

Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don’t have.