I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.

Absolutely not. I have no problem with commitment. In fact, I love having someone in my life.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

In God’s family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.

I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it.

I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women… no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.

There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

My mami and papi love my music. They’re always listening to the radio waiting for one of my songs to come on. And when it does, they turn up the volume – and turn it back down when it’s over.

The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.

The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but the Pope has the duty, in Christ’s name, to remind the rich to help the poor, to respect them, to promote them.

I’m not claiming divinity. I’ve never claimed purity of soul. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can… But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies – or else? The chain reaction of evil – hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars – must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

In every parting there is an image of death.

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

I don’t know, I feel desperate when I sing. And I look desperate – it feels like I’m singing for my life, which makes me twitch, if that makes sense.

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

People in tough times – it doesn’t mean they don’t have a great attitude.

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

I think ‚The Color Purple‘ is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

It used to be the case, like you’d switch jobs, and then maybe you wouldn’t keep in touch with all the people that you knew from that old job, just because it was too hard. But one of the things that Facebook does is it makes it really easy to just stay in touch with all these people.

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

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

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

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.

It’s true that I’ve never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.

I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.

If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England – you couldn’t have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what’s really happening to me, even if it’s a tough pill to swallow for people around me… I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

People always say when they meet me that I’m not what they expect. I assume they think I’m this super dark and depressing guy, but I like to channel all of those emotions into my work.

I have this feeling that the world is not in balance. And people are afraid, but we’re also starting to be really brave.

Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion – towards ourselves and towards all living beings.

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

Obviously, you go through a lot of emotional turmoil in a divorce.

As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what’s happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don’t seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.

A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

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

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

She’s been married so many times she has rice marks on her face.

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

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

I love our daughters more than anything in the world – more than life itself. And while that may not be the first thing that some folks want to hear from an Ivy-league-educated lawyer, it is truly who I am. So for me, being Mom-in-Chief is, and always will be, job number one.

I like entertaining people. I really miss it.

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.