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.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

Let no such man be trusted.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

I have more friends in New York than Paris.

I can’t pretend that I’m brave and that I can beat the whole world.

I’ve done the bad-boy thing. It was fun for a good three months. But the thing about bad boys is, you have to keep in mind, you’re never gonna marry a bad boy.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

If you think dealing with issues like worthiness and authenticity and vulnerability are not worthwhile because there are more pressing issues, like the bottom line or attendance or standardized test scores, you are sadly, sadly mistaken. It underpins everything.

It’s annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren’t they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.

Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident.

The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you’re making a mistake but let you go on with it, that’s when it ruins your mind state as an artist.

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it’s to have any meaning in this world – and stop being its apologist.

Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Sooner or later we’re all someone’s dog.

I’m pretty sure I don’t have any songs that are about how much I love someone. They’re all either about, like, ‚I hate you,‘ or ‚You make me hate me.‘

It’s the poorer people in tropical zones who will get really hit by climate change – as well as some ecosystems, which nobody wants to see disappear.

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

We’re so immaturely cynical as a culture. We’re not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they’re stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another.

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.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

There’s only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I’ll get married again.

He that has not got a wife is not yet a complete man.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

Let it be our delight to find our society in the circle of which Jesus is the center, and let us make those our friends who are the friends of Jesus.

God just has a way of working things out the way he wants to and you have no say in that.

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin‘ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

The intention and outcome of vulnerability is trust, intimacy and connection. The outcome of oversharing is distrust, disconnection – and usually a little judgment.

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.

If I’d married someone in show business, there’d be too much competition.

I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it’s a better way of telling the stories.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

Country radio is much more like a family than any other group of people that I’ve met.

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

My friends, there are no friends.

I haven’t had that one great love, which is good. I don’t want that to be in the past – I want it to be in the future.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

I think the perfection of love is that it’s not perfect.

You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

I am tough, but deep inside my toughness, I like to let people know I’m an old-fashioned mama’s boy.

If I love you, I show you I love you every day. Little things, big things.

For me, one of the toughest things about Valentine’s Day is that it gets geared up as the day to profess your love. See, T-E-S-T – that’s a bad word that doesn’t go with L-O-V-E.

I’ve been careful in love. I’ve been careless in love. And I’ve had adventures I wouldn’t trade for anything.

I don’t hate women – they just sometimes make me mad.

I think I have had so much blessing – I’ve had my brother, who was brilliant – I think my family came closest to making a genius when they made my brother – Bailey was just all of that. He loved me.

My friends are my estate.

I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you’re grateful, you’ll see God open up new doors.

Physical contact is a human necessity.