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 idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

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

When people get married young, you don’t really understand the true definition of marriage.

‚The Lion‘ all began with a picture of a faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wood. This picture had been in my mind since I was about sixteen. Then one day, when I was about forty, I said to myself, ‚Let’s try to make a story about it.‘

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

The Paralympic Games is about transforming our perception of the world.

If someone is right for you, you’ll know it.

No sanction can stand against ignited minds.

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin‘ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.

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

Dividers seek to make themselves look or feel better by making others feel worse. They damage relationships, fracture teams and organizations, and create havoc in people’s lives.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

I always thought Johnny Carson was just brilliant, and I used to watch him and all the comics that would be on the show every night – and I’d dream about it being me.

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

I make decisions all day, so it’s nice for a woman like me to go to dinner and have the man take the menu and say, ‚Let me order.‘ Other women would be offended by that, but I’m like, ‚Good. Because I can’t make one more decision today.‘ I want someone to rub my feet without being asked.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

I don’t know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

I’ve had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I’ve often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.

In God’s family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.

Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

Art is the proper task of life.

If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.

Everyone I look up to is bringing me into the tech world. You’d be surprised by all the music people in it, invested in it.

The waving of a pine tree on the top of a mountain – a magic wand in Nature’s hand – every devout mountaineer knows its power; but the marvelous beauty value of what the Scotch call a breckan in a still dell, what poet has sung this?

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.

Trying to meet new women, it’s always a little more difficult as opposed to calling somebody I knew that’s single and trying to rebuild that connection.

In truth, I did enjoy the benefits of a Harvard connection.

A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend – and he’s a priest.

Within one’s own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.

Genius is a potential that lives within you and every other human being. You have many moments of genius in your lifetime. These are the times when you have a uniquely brilliant idea and implement it even if only you are aware of how fantastic it is.

I spend a lot of time just, you know, with my girlfriend and my dog. And I mean, we don’t have a lot of furniture in our house, so it’s really simple. And we’re trying to build products for everyone in the world, right. And you don’t want to get isolated to do that.

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

I never promise anything. I don’t promise anything to my mum. I don’t promise anything to the supporters.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman’s skillet and the man’s ax-helve.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

I learn poetry, learn text, and that really keeps you alive.

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

I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it’s a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

There’s nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It’s a thing no married man knows anything about.

A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: ‚Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?‘ We must always consider the person.

Love is only one of many passions.

I definitely don’t think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

I never dreamt, in my dream, I’m Dalai Lama.