I have discovered that my interest in my dear pupil, Mabel, has ripened into a far deeper feeling than that of mere friendship. In fact, I know that I have learned to love her very sincerely.

My mami and papi love my music. They’re always listening to the radio waiting for one of my songs to come on. And when it does, they turn up the volume – and turn it back down when it’s over.

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

I’ve never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I’ve only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.

Friends accept you the way you are.

It is better to be deceived by one’s friends than to deceive them.

Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.

Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

I’ve been careful in love. I’ve been careless in love. And I’ve had adventures I wouldn’t trade for anything.

As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them. With a friend, I built a number of complicated models that I could control.

If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream.

Demonstrate to the world, there is ‚No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy‘ than a U.S. Marine.

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

I became a people-watcher when I lost all my friends when I was 12.

To feel not only submitted but willing to be anything or nothing as the Lord wills it – this is, in truth, to sing a song to our Well Beloved.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

Love is not consolation. It is light.

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

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

A true man hates no one.

My friends, there are no friends.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

I’ve been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she’ll kill me.

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

I love my friends and my past, and it’s made me who I am.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

He didn’t come out of my belly, but my God, I’ve made his bones, because I’ve attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I’m so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

The uncertainty of parenting can bring up feelings in us that range from frustration to terror.

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

I was 14, and I fell in love with Pink Floyd.

It is necessary to fall in love… if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it’s almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.

Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

Fear is real, but so is love.

Anywhere I go, there is always an incredible crowd that follows me. In Rome, as I land at the airport, even the men kiss me. I love Rome.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

Children make your life important.

One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.

Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it.

I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.

My father wasn’t a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher – one of those Victorians, hard as iron – but my dad was tough enough.

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

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings – words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.

Love is the one wild card.

Fame may go by and – so long, I’ve had you.

It is not so much our friends‘ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace marked on the heart of the element by the psychical convergence of the universe upon itself.

You’ve got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

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.

I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.