Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn’t enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy.

The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.

We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.

We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves, eager to listen to the next story and the next, and the next.

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars – yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

If I wasn’t Bob Dylan, I’d probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.

I never think about myself as an artist working in this time. I think about it in macro.

Bob Dylan is like an alien on this earth, and I love him! I cried when I saw him play live because I was so close to him.

Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don’t know why he’s with me. I don’t know whether I’m good enough. But if I make him happy, then I’m everything I want to be.

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

Jesus is a divine guest inside of you all the time – one who loves, understands, sees and hears you. He wants to live in oneness with you… to be the centerpiece of everything you do.

I remember coming to New York in 1974 to do a play here called ‚Equis.‘ And I remember the first morning getting up and walking around the streets, and I thought, ‚I’m home.‘ I felt really at peace here.

The value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated, no question. But I want to be clear: I’m not trying to be anyone’s savior. I’m just trying to think about the future and not be sad.

Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you’ve got to let it grow.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don’t think anybody has held this job who hasn’t felt personally responsible for those being killed.

I don’t really get nervous that much, or if I do, only I know. It’s all inside me. I am good at hiding everything.

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

If I’m not in love, if I’m not with a long-term companion, I cannot be happy.

This is love: the flowering of love is meditation.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

I don’t think I’m tangible to myself.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: With mindfulness, you can see that she is unhappy, that she is suffering. You can see her wrong perceptions. You can see that she is not beautiful when she says things that are unkind.

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

It’s easy to forget who you are.

Marriage is the death of hope.

No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!

Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet’s heart when caught and tangled in a woman’s body?

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

I let the American people down.

My wife and I are very affectionate.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

I will be unhappy if I know I have not accomplished something I should have done that was possible.

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

I’m the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that’s horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it.

Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.

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.

It’s fun to be hopelessly in love. It’s dangerous, but it’s fun.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.

What a wee little part of a person’s life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

Oh, my mama was awesome. Very strict, overreligious, loved the Lord, loved rules. But she had to be that way because of where we were growing up, the neighborhood I was from.

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

I am always wary of decisions made hastily. I am always wary of the first decision, that is, the first thing that comes to my mind if I have to make a decision. This is usually the wrong thing. I have to wait and assess, looking deep into myself, taking the necessary time.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night’s date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn’t think of looking at another woman.

In a universe that’s an intelligent system with a divine creative force supporting it, there simply can be no accidents. As tough as it is to acknowledge, you had to go through what you went through in order to get to where you are today, and the evidence is that you did.

People hate as they love, unreasonably.