A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

I’m drawn to bad romances.

I think that, whatever happens, I’m just happy I’ve written those songs and I’ve made an album. That’s really big for me, and I’m proud of that.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

Logically, harmony must come from the heart… Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.

All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I’d worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: ‚Don’t hide these things from me. I’d rather you ask me these things straight out, and I’ll answer all your questions.‘

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

People like to hear the word ‚love.‘

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

I like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance.

Most people are happy being average. Most are happy being faceless in a sea of faces.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

Trying to meet new women, it’s always a little more difficult as opposed to calling somebody I knew that’s single and trying to rebuild that connection.

My mother taught children to love to dance.

It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.

Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can’t ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment’s notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow – that’s vulnerability.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it’s just the thing that every man wants – to have a son and heir.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

U2 is an original species… there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.

Funny is the world I live in. You’re funny, I’m interested. You’re not funny, I’m not interested.

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

The earth laughs in flowers.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

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

All you need is love.

I don’t have many sad days.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

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

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia – to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

Happiness is the cessation of suffering.

Agape, the love of each one of us for the other, from the closest to the furthest, is in fact the only way that Jesus has given us to find the way of salvation and of the Beatitudes.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

There are no rules when it comes to love.

I had no bad moment in my relationship with Dortmund. Not one second.

I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don’t just want to possess it, it will find you.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

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.

I think I have to trust that you end up with the person you’re supposed to end up with, and that everything in between is there to teach you stuff.

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.

The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

Women – always in trouble with them, but can’t live without them.

At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.

The happiest part of a man’s life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.