Love is the one wild card.

I’d love to date somebody cool, fun, funny.

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

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.

If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.

Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don’t know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.

There’s a part of you – the born-again part, your spirit – that’s dead to sin. That’s why it bothers you now when you sin. The ‚wilderness‘ part of you – your soul – is your unrenewed mind, out-of-control emotions, and stubborn will.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

I have a very good family. I’m very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It’s one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.

We will always be a family. Always.

I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It’s a natural process.

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

Just because you make a good plan, doesn’t mean that’s what’s gonna happen.

It’s a frustrating game because the situations so drastically change at different times over the course of the week, the game, the season. It feels like brain surgery at times.

House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

I’ve learned that usually, the less I know about other people, the better off I am.

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!

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

You have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize.

The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.

We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

Hate has no place in the house of God.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.

I’ve laid my friends bare.

I can say I’d honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I’ve written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times.

My friends, there are no friends.

Maria is the best reason to come home.

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!

All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I’d worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: ‚Don’t hide these things from me. I’d rather you ask me these things straight out, and I’ll answer all your questions.‘

It has been hard for me to find it, but I have found love.

Doing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, because you feel so much pressure to do well that night. But I think everyone’s grown to accept that and so they give me my space at the show.

I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all.

I used to take my short stories to girls‘ homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?

I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don’t just want to possess it, it will find you.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

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

To be social is to be forgiving.

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

Strong emotions such as passion and bliss are indications that you’re connected to Spirit, or ‚inspired,‘ if you will. When you’re inspired, you activate dormant forces, and the abundance you seek in any form comes streaming into your life.

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

An onion can make people cry but there’s never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.

There was one incident at a movie theater where my girl got mad at these guys who were talking behind us. I never looked back there, but she was like, ‚Will you all just shut up!‘ And I just got up and moved three rows in front. She was like, ‚What are you doing?!‘ I was like, ‚You better get up here! I don’t play the fighting games.‘

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

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

Hatred is inveterate anger.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.