As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.

You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they’re not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don’t care about money, and that’s not my problem.

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

A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend’s griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother’s happiness.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Speak low, if you speak love.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

I rely on other people every day of my life.

I’m just wanting to make the proper breakfast and keep the house. That’s my passion. At the request of my kids, I’m taking cooking classes. As I go to sleep at night, I think, ‚Did I do a great job as a mom, or was that an average day?‘

My mom and I have always been there for each other. We had some tough times, but she was always there for me.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

My children love Maleficent’s voice, so they always make me do it at home.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

People like music when they’re in love, but they don’t need it as much. You need music when you’re missing someone or you’re pining for someone or you’re forgetting someone or you’re trying to process what just happened.

One Buddha is not enough; we need to have many Buddhas.

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious – like, I don’t remember them ever being together.

I think I’ve got wiser.

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.

War settles nothing.

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

Necessity never made a good bargain.

Youth is wasted on the young.

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

My family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

I love to flirt, and I’ve never met a man I didn’t like.

‚Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They’re keeping up with their friends and family, but they’re also building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand. They’re connecting with the audience that they want to connect to. It’s almost a disadvantage if you’re not on it now.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

It was a privilege to pray with Governor Romney – for his family and our country.

I didn’t have a father figure in the house.

Too many people treat parenting like it’s the 20th item on their to-do list.

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

When you’re traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonically, lyrically, visually. Conversations with women with different accents and stories told in those accents. I like to create characters based on different people I’ve met, and relationships. I like to tell stories loosely based on real-life events.

There is only a finger’s difference between a wise man and a fool.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.