When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection, love is born.

Life is precious.

People haven’t always been there for me, but music always has.

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 one badge of Christian discipleship is not orthodoxy but love.

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It’s one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

Talent without working hard is nothing.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

Every time I come to Europe, I’m just as excited as I was my very first time, which was many, many years ago. I love that part of the world, and I especially love the fans.

Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

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

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

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

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

People are always coming up to me and saying, ‚I heard your dad’s speech, and it’s really great.‘ And they’ll mention some place I didn’t even know my dad was going to.

I read the Bible to myself; I’ll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.

Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don’t know why this one is different, but it is. You don’t know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can’t stop thinking about it.

Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered… to feel she is the most important thing in someone’s world. Only a man can paint this picture.

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.

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

Everybody’s got that split between the beautiful and fragile, the hard and the dark.

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

The waving of a pine tree on the top of a mountain – a magic wand in Nature’s hand – every devout mountaineer knows its power; but the marvelous beauty value of what the Scotch call a breckan in a still dell, what poet has sung this?

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.

Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish.

The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

Talent is something that comes from within; it has nothing to do with age.

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

One of the great attractions of patriotism – it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what’s more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

I know a lot of people who wouldn’t be comfortable with everything that comes with being in a band as big as Nirvana. The thing that I don’t understand is not appreciating that simple gift of being able to play music.

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

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?

Love is the most powerful thing in the world, and you know, what love brings is joy.

Intimates are predestined.

My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I’ve had. And now that I’m in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won’t be half as much anger as there was.

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

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

I’m constantly trying to find new ways to get my hair out of my face.

They’ll forget all the rubbish when I’ve gone, and they’ll remember the football. If only one person thinks I’m the best player in the world, that’s good enough for me.

I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back.

Instead of being just a church that welcomes and receives by keeping the doors open, let us try also to be a church that finds new roads, that is able to step outside itself and go to those who do not attend Mass, to those who have quit or are indifferent.

People react to fear, not love; they don’t teach that in Sunday School, but it’s true.

It’s every girl’s dream to be a cover girl!

I just got to feel that whoever I marry has some real regard for me.

My whole life and my whole career, even through my music, I tell people: let’s unify; let’s show more love.

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

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

Really showing love requires more than just words.