I don’t think there’s an option for me to fall in love slowly or at medium speed. I either do, or I don’t.

‚Love Story‘ is actually about a guy that I almost dated. But when I introduced him to my family and my friends, they all said they didn’t like him. All of them!

A friend in power is a friend lost.

I wrote my first song at 12 and remember someone asking, ‚What were you going through at 12 that you could write about?‘ I get what you’re saying, but 11, 12, 13 were the hardest years of my life. You learn everything. You learn how horrible things feel.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

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

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.

They died hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.

Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.

I was always interested in choreography – in making people think and feel something.

To get a hold on boys you must be their friend.

He knows my limitations and where I’m a good wife and a good mom.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

I’m not ashamed to say I fear something.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

As a sportsperson, the best thing is people recognising you and loving you for what you do. For me, glamour is 100 people in the hotel feeling happy to see you.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

It’s a funny thing that when a man hasn’t anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

Barack knows the American Dream because he’s lived it, and he wants everyone in this country to have that same opportunity, no matter who we are or where we’re from or what we look like or who we love.

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‚I’ll buy a million dollars‘ worth of love.‘ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

If merely ‚feeling good‘ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

My friends are my estate.

What women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.

I had no bad moment in my relationship with Dortmund. Not one second.

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

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

We never love a person, but only qualities.

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

I’ve had moments when I’ve thought about somebody, picked up the phone to call them and they are on the line already, and I think that maybe there’s some vibration, some connection.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

If you get something right, you really feel it, right in your chest, on stage. I think it’s an incomparable experience.

If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England – you couldn’t have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

What really raises one’s indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.

The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

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.

Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

The reason children accept discipline from their parents is because they know their parents love them.

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

My wife has about everything I can think of.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

I think I have a certain respect for people, you know. And I guess a lot of times I expect that respect to go both ways.

I’ve done a lot of things I’m not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that.

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.