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

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

Single life is so overrated.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

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

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

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

In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare’s plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it.

Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.

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.

Treat your children like the blessings they are or don’t have them at all.

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

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.

It’s important to love in hip hop.

I don’t keep people around me that aren’t family. You don’t get to stay. Unless you’re eating at the table with us, you’re not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.

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

I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

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

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

If you’re talking to a man who wouldn’t fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you’re talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

No matter what, I always make it home for Christmas. I love to go to my Tennessee Mountain Home and invite all of my nieces and nephews and their spouses and kids and do what we all like to do – eat, laugh, trade presents and just enjoy each other… and sometimes I even dress up like Santa Claus!

God wants to help us… He loves us… we are His children. But He will not force His help on us at any time. He sees us when we struggle and fight and complain our way through things. And I believe it breaks His heart, when all we have to do is ask Him for help.

I always wanted to be loved.

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.

The only answer to fear is faith in God, knowing He loves you unconditionally and individually.

Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

I’ve been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she’ll kill me.

I love the attention but I don’t like too much of it.

I spend a lot of time just, you know, with my girlfriend and my dog. And I mean, we don’t have a lot of furniture in our house, so it’s really simple. And we’re trying to build products for everyone in the world, right. And you don’t want to get isolated to do that.

The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.

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

We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.

I’ve had no contact with my daughter for years. That’s her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don’t want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don’t know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

I don’t like cream puff, corny guys. Usually, they are the nice guys, the ones that won’t hurt you. They’ll pull out the chair for you and the whole nine yards. Everything is perfect and boring.

The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.

From the boys‘ point of view, scouting puts them into fraternity-gangs, which is their natural organisation, whether for games, mischief, or loafing; it gives them a smart dress and equipments; it appeals to their imagination and romance; and it engages them in an active, open-air life.

There’s love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we’re alone in our heads.

For me to talk with Obama and the conversation I had with him, I was letting him know that me and my fans have a special connection, and it’s love, and I believe that love is the answer.

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You’ve got to just stand there and take it.

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.

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense… I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

You see, at the end of the day, my most important title is still ‚mom-in-chief.‘ My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world.

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

I thank God I’m myself and for the life I’m given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.