I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

No man wants to settle down. It happens. Eventually you’re going to bump into somebody that makes you go, ‚Hmm, I don’t mind seeing this person every day.‘

‚Mean‘ is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt like I was being hit in the face every time this person would take to their computer.

People forget… that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that’s what happened.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

Where love is, there God is also.

Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.

They are resilient children, but they are children, and as much as they need help to understand the hard truths in life, they also need what we all need – protection and love.

The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

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.

In the world of money and investing, you must learn to control your emotions.

I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems.

Arthur Miller wouldn’t have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it – and sometimes three.

If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.

If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.

I’ve missed out on a lot of things, going out with friends.

I searched for years I found no love. I’m sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.

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

It’s hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don’t always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

My wife and I don’t compete. We know each other’s preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That’s what friends do.

I don’t keep people around me that aren’t family. You don’t get to stay. Unless you’re eating at the table with us, you’re not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.

The fame isn’t important to me. It’s a blessing to have. Having so many people that support me, that love me and listen to my music, is beautiful.

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.

I’m so nervous. I’ve always been nervous, ever since I was a kid.

The only thing I can say is that I like people; I like human beings with their faults and with their strengths.

I’m not a real movie star. I’ve still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

Heavenly Father loves every one of His children. After all, He is their Father.

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

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

Jealousy… is a mental cancer.

Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I’m angry about bankers. About the government.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

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

There is no such thing as a lovers‘ oath.

Don’t get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.

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

Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.

She’s been married so many times she has rice marks on her face.

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.

Football is a sad game.

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

A friend in power is a friend lost.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.

You’re unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.