Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background, and I think the greatest thing to do is to pray that God will give you love for them, and I do.

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

I’m just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

But men must know, that in this theatre of man’s life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

Hate has no place in the house of God.

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

My mother was and will always remain my greatest hero.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

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.

I’m such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

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

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

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

For some reason, I have better luck when I work with women. I guess I have a good sense of sisterhood.

Young men and women, your education is ever important – to us, to you, and to God.

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

I’ve been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she’ll kill me.

All I have to say is basically if performing, singing, acting, and dancing is what you want to do, then you just have to do it – no matter where it is.

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

I still love football, though, and I think cooking is like football. It’s not a job, it’s a passion. When you become good at it, it’s a dream job and financially you need never to worry. Ever.

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It’s one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

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

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness and moderation is certain and durable.

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.

In England, football is a big thing to talk about, but Liverpool, it’s a special place. You feel it when you make your first step.

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don’t know if it’s possible forever and ever.

Absolutely not. I have no problem with commitment. In fact, I love having someone in my life.

Football changed my life and it gave me a platform to get out my aggression and it gave me a sense of value.

I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

What’s really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

Risk is a part of God’s game, alike for men and nations.

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

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

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.

Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.

My passion is bringing storylines around and constructing a full body of work rather than just a 16-bar verse.

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don’t give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.

Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston, I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song, and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, ‚Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.‘

I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.