All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

People like to hear the word ‚love.‘

Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

I can say I’d honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I’ve written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times.

People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.

If I don’t run for president, we’ll all be OK.

A man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I’m afraid, have a tendency to hide our feelings.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

I’m pretty sure I don’t have any songs that are about how much I love someone. They’re all either about, like, ‚I hate you,‘ or ‚You make me hate me.‘

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart’s the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

Fortunately we’re not a public company – we’re a private group of companies, and I can do what I want.

Locally, I’ll vote one way and nationally, maybe another.

I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death.

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

You have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize.

I wrote my first song at 12 and remember someone asking, ‚What were you going through at 12 that you could write about?‘ I get what you’re saying, but 11, 12, 13 were the hardest years of my life. You learn everything. You learn how horrible things feel.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?

We all have two lives: an inner life and an outer life. Your inner life is your soul life, which includes your mind, will and emotions. Your outer life is your physical life. And while God cares about every detail of your life, He is more concerned with your inner life than your outer life.

A people free to choose will always choose peace.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

In too much of the West, everyone wants the guarantee of safety, and never having to make any decisions.

Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It’s also the dangerous part and it’s an ugly emotion that hurts.

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.

If I ever felt like I was getting lost in the hurricane that was storming around Nirvana, I’d just go back to Virginia.

It’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well.

I delayed my father’s funeral because of cricket.

I can’t consciously explain how people feel after reading my books. All is too personal.

I’ve been praying that we might have a spiritual awakening. But I think that becomes possible as individuals surrender their lives fresh and anew to Christ.

You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

I’ll be judged on the body of work and not the popularity of any one decision.

Learn to say ‚no‘ to the good so you can say ‚yes‘ to the best.

I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don’t know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds, they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material.

All emotion is involuntary when genuine.

As I have done in every election since I started voting so many years ago, I always like to take my time and examine the two candidates, see not only the two candidates but the policies they will bring in, the people they will bring in, who they might appoint to the Supreme Court, and look at the whole range of issues before making a decision.

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.

Religious faith, like political belief, should be based on reasoning, on the development of thought and feelings. The two things are inseparable.

This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.

Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone – a memory.

The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

A man’s own judgment should be the final appeal in all that relates to himself.

I have all the emotions that everyone has; it just appears that I don’t.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

If your mom cries a lot, you probably cry a lot. It’s what you learn.

If I want to do well in racing I need to be more focused so I stopped going to school. If I wasn’t a very good driver it would not be a wise decision, but it gives me an advantage over my competitors.