I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

When you are young you tend to do so many things that are not needed. When you get experience, you know what exactly what works for you and you tend to do things that you want.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

I’m not perfect.

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

I’ve never been a boyfriend kind of girl.

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

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

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

Secretly we’re all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.

The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it’s almost impossible to stamp out.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.

When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it’s to have any meaning in this world – and stop being its apologist.

If you’re trying too hard to be the girl next door, you’re not going to be.

We love things we love what they are.

The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes – or just by staring into space.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

When I was married, I definitely went through a lying period.

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

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

Over the holidays, and even during filming, I realized that I actually like my body, even if it’s not perfect according to the book. I just feel sexy. For the first time, I don’t want to get rid of the curves. I just want to tone it up. My body is comfortable, and it’s not unhealthy, so I’m going to rock with it.

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

It’s an endless proving of myself, that I really am a musician, that I have something to offer in the room. That women can be musicians, women can be rock stars, women can be more than an objectified idea of a pop star.

Here’s what I’ve learned about deal-breakers. If you have enough natural chemistry with someone, you overlook every single thing that you said would break the deal.

Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you’re heartbroken, but tomorrow you’ll be in love again.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Nobody looks like they did when they were 20, so why not take advantage of the fact that you’re changing, emotionally as well as physically?

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

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

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don’t know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man’s being unable to sit still in a room.

I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.

I have no hostility to nature, but a child’s love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

Why do Jewish divorces cost so much? They’re worth it.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

I don’t have time to be lonely. And I get fearful of relationships because I feel guilty about wanting someone to be completely faithful and loyal, when I can’t even give them 10 percent of the attention that they need. It’s just the reality of my time, my life, my schedule.

I think the perfection of love is that it’s not perfect.

At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.

If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me.

The people of Northern Ireland have sorted out my whole life.

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion’s roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.

I’m not a centerfold.

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

Obviously, you go through a lot of emotional turmoil in a divorce.

I guess every single word I’ve ever said is going to be dissected now.

Single life is so overrated.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

There are going to be things I’m not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

Great loves too must be endured.

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world… Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St. Louis, Missouri, but Vivian Baxter was born black and poor, to black and poor parents. Later she would grow up and be called beautiful. As a grown woman she would be known as the butter-colored lady with the blowback hair.