Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God’s divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego’s insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

At ev’ry word a reputation dies.

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

The important thing is to be in love with something.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Our love, our gratitude, our admiration for our men and women in uniform, our veterans and their families – all of that is bigger than any one party or any one election.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

Superstition is the poetry of life.

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

Anxiety and spiritual searching have been consistent themes with me, and that figures into my worldview. But I tend to make my songs sound like relationship songs.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

Friends accept you the way you are.

Rocks and waters, etc., are words of God, and so are men. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

I don’t think I’ve ever read poetry, ever.

We will always be a family. Always.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

Love is a serious mental disease.

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

There’s a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It’s deceptive because when you have pride, you’re usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn’t sell well.

It is better to be deceived by one’s friends than to deceive them.

It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend’s folly.

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

In hip-hop, there’s not a lot of love. There’s not a lot of love being spread. It’s always like ‚I’m stuntin‘ on you raps, or I’m better than you raps.‘ It’s not a lot of ‚Yo man, I idolize you raps.‘

I’ve always written. There’s a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the street from the store and kept it when my grandmother’s papers were destroyed. I’d written some essays. I loved poetry, still do. But I really, really loved it then.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

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

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

Find enough clever things to say, and you’re a Prime Minister; write them down and you’re a Shakespeare.

No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!

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.

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

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.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

My mother did not like children.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

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.

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

Maria is the best reason to come home.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

Of all nature’s gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action, which produces further confusion, further misery.

Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.