A relationship can give you a gut wrenching feeling sometimes. It’s a real emotional ride.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

Don’t get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

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.

There’s a part of you – the born-again part, your spirit – that’s dead to sin. That’s why it bothers you now when you sin. The ‚wilderness‘ part of you – your soul – is your unrenewed mind, out-of-control emotions, and stubborn will.

‚Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

The human heart is the same the world over.

The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

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

Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday.

My wife and I are very affectionate.

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally.

Your emotions are very unstable and should never be the foundation for direction in your life.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

It’s fun to be hopelessly in love. It’s dangerous, but it’s fun.

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

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

I don’t hate women – they just sometimes make me mad.

The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build.

A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.

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

Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren’t susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.

My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.

No one was more shocked or angry than I was when we didn’t find the weapons. I had a sickening feeling every time I thought about it. I still do.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

If you hear Anarchy in the UK today your hair stands on end. It gives you the shivers.

You are a child of the sun, you come from the sun, and that is something true with the Earth also… your relationship with the Earth is so deep, and the Earth is in you and this is something not very difficult, much less difficult then philosophy.

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it’s with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

Listen with your eyes for feelings.

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

All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.

Love is trembling happiness.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

I get a little bit emotional during a game!

The thing about impressing your girlfriend is that when you do something like a private island in Fiji, it’s all downhill from that point.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

I have to be in tune. All the time. I have to be in tune with my husband, where he is, how he’s feeling. I have to be in tune with where my family is.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

I don’t feel bitterness, I don’t feel anger towards anybody. Fighting is never emotional to me.

I’m a movie maker, but I have the same feelings as the average guy out there.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

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

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.

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.

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

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

I’m tired. I’m tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I’m tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war.

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

The emotions in a song – the anger, aggression – have got to be legitimate.