A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

I’m not ashamed to say I fear something.

I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.

I think we all change each other’s paths. I don’t know which law idea that is in physics, but I don’t think any of us can live without affecting one another.

I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.

Acting is happy agony.

My wife is already in Heaven.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.

Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream.

I mean, families are weird.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

I definitely don’t think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.

My mom, she was a very, very soft woman. It was hard for her to yell or even curse. But when it came to fighting for her kids, she found a strength she didn’t always know she had.

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that’s when I think life is over.

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.

My mother loved children – she would have given anything if I had been one.

Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.

Just talk to me as a father – not what the Constitution says. What do you feel?

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.‘

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

It’s hard for anybody who’s been with me not to feel starved for affection when I’m making love to my ideas. Maybe it’s not meant for me to settle down and be married.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there’s time, the Bastard Time.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

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

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?

I think women go crazy for a reason. It’s not like it just happens.

We’re so immaturely cynical as a culture. We’re not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they’re stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another.

To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.

Speak low, if you speak love.

When the kids are laughing in the audience, I tear up, I’m so happy I did a nice thing.

I’m a human being and I fall in love and sometimes I don’t have control of every situation.

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

I love performing, you know, because, like I say, I’m a ham for this stuff.

I don’t like people going behind my back.

I’ve never had a divorce, but I’ve seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can’t write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I’m able to kind of express it, or their joy.

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

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.

A pessimist? That’s a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune’s inequality exhibits under this sun.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

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.

I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

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

In the flush of love’s light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you – gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.