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

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

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.

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

We love things we love what they are.

It’s not possible to stop love.

Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.

Who, being loved, is poor?

I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

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.

Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

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

If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

God’s love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again.

One of the things I’ve told men over and over and over and over is if you’re being rejected by all the women that you approach, it’s not the women!

I’ve laid my friends bare.

What women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.

Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

I’m doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.

My mother was and will always remain my greatest hero.

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.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.

I can imagine it’s hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn’t know.

Pay attention, don’t let life go by you. Fall in love with the back of your cereal box.

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

We’re close friends – the American people, the Israeli people, our governments. There’s absolutely no daylight – none – between us and the Israelis on the question of Israel’s security.

My mom and I have always been really close. She’s always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn’t have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

If I’m gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That’s how it works.

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

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

While discipline and freedom seem like they sit on opposite sides of the spectrum, they are actually very connected.

I’m definitely gaining new fans, and that’s the key of any success… gain more love.

Treat your children like the blessings they are or don’t have them at all.

I really miss being able to blend in with people.

Disagreement is something normal.

I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.

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

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.

Dear friends, we may well sing to our Beloved when it is near the time of our departure. It draws near, and as it approaches, we must not dread it, but rather thank God for it.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

I’ve been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she’ll kill me.

I’m the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that’s horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it.

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.