But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

I think ‚The Color Purple‘ is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe.

The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression – all of that is very important.

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.

There is something about building up a comradeship – that I still believe is the greatest of all feats – and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It’s the intense effort, the giving of everything you’ve got. It’s really a very pleasant sensation.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

I feel connected to my generation through the music, but I also fear for us. We’re in a very self-destructive state where we’re addicted to outside opinions and we all feel like we have fans.

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

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.

Science arose from poetry… when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

I’m terrified of losing my voice.

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic – being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

Love is easy, and I love writing. You can’t resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you’re in love.

Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony.

My dad was never married. He was kind of a rolling stone. But he was never disrespectful. At the same time, even though he had women in his life when I was a kid, there wasn’t any consistency.

Hear reason, or she’ll make you feel her.

Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is ‚elephant‘.

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

As apostles and prophets, we are concerned not only for our children and grandchildren but for yours as well – and for each of God’s children.

Defending peace is the duty of all.

I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best – I mean, when I’m at my best – of the good Southern black preachers. The lyricism of the spirituals and the directness of gospel songs and the mystery of blues are in my music or in my poetry and prose, or I missed everything.

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.

There’s no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively – I am one with the people.

When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it’s like giving them emotional oxygen.

My daughter doesn’t even get my humor. She’s like, ‚Um, no. I don’t get it, Dad. Mmm, no, not that one, Dad.‘

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.

Words may show a man’s wit but actions his meaning.

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.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

I can’t relate to lazy people. We don’t speak the same language. I don’t understand you. I don’t want to understand you.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

My wife and I are very affectionate.

Synergy is better than my way or your way. It’s our way.

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.

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

Delhi means everything to me. This city has given me everything, and I love it.

Each day we understand better what the Indians say, and they us, so that very often we are intelligible to each other.

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

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

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.