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.

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, ‚Did you sleep good?‘ I said ‚No, I made a few mistakes.‘

If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good.

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

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.

Marriage is the most wonderful thing ever.

I’ve always written. There’s a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the street from the store and kept it when my grandmother’s papers were destroyed. I’d written some essays. I loved poetry, still do. But I really, really loved it then.

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

We think when God speaks to us, there’s going to be a boom out of Heaven or we’re going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God’s talking to us all the time. He’s talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it’s the Holy Spirit talking to us.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

Wine gives a man nothing… it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

I’m married to an Italian woman, and I used to love cooking Italian at home, because it’s one-pot cooking. But my wife does not approve of my Italian cooking.

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

There was one incident at a movie theater where my girl got mad at these guys who were talking behind us. I never looked back there, but she was like, ‚Will you all just shut up!‘ And I just got up and moved three rows in front. She was like, ‚What are you doing?!‘ I was like, ‚You better get up here! I don’t play the fighting games.‘

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.

To be loved is very demoralizing.

What good am I? I can’t have kids. I can’t cook. I’ve been divorced three times. Who would want me?

Grief is the price we pay for love.

For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don’t think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I’m with them.

He who hath many friends hath none.

To be able to throw one’s self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman’s smile – that is happiness.

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

As scientists, we step on the shoulders of science, building on the work that has come before us – aiming to inspire a new generation of young scientists to continue once we are gone.

I think that you can love people without it being the great love.

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.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.

The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them – neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.

I’ve had no contact with my daughter for years. That’s her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don’t want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They’re just braver five minutes longer.

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love.

I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom… in a clarification of life – not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

I use my celebrity status to inspire someone, to give them hope.

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

Most poets are young simply because they have not been caught up. Show me an old poet, and I’ll show you, more often than not, either a madman or a master… it’s when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order simply to make a poem that you fail. That is why I do not rework poems.

Ever since I first came here in 1963 to fight Henry Cooper, I have loved the people of England.

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you’d would wake up times and hope that the next day you’d be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.

Genius, when young, is divine.

I never thought I’d have children; I never thought I’d be in love, I never thought I’d meet the right person. Having come from a broken home – you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don’t look for them.

I love the ending of a movie where two people end up together. Preferably if there’s rain and an airport or running or a confession of love.

I don’t write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches.

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it’s like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can’t ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment’s notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow – that’s vulnerability.

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.