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.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

People who truly understand what is meant by self-reliance know they must live their lives by ethics rather than rules.

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

When I was a kid, I had a tendency to criticize. But when I did, my mum would whisk me off to the bathroom to stand in front of a mirror. Ten minutes, never less. To think about how criticism is a poor reflection on the one who criticizes.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be.

You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won’t receive the good things God has in store.

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

I try to not focus on what people expect from me.

I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.

All mankind love a lover.

I do have a lot of gays in my family now, but some will never come out.

There is no such thing as a lovers‘ oath.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is still there, but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person.

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader.

I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It’s a way of life for me.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

Live the life you’ve dreamed.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

The more you seek the uncomfortable, the more you will become comfortable.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing – hopefully.

When you’re traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonically, lyrically, visually. Conversations with women with different accents and stories told in those accents. I like to create characters based on different people I’ve met, and relationships. I like to tell stories loosely based on real-life events.

One of the most terrible feelings in the world is knowing that someone else doesn’t like you. Especially when you don’t know what you’ve done to deserve it.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

If I’d married someone in show business, there’d be too much competition.

I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

Frustration is a sign I am acting independently. The more you try your own way, the tighter the doors will stay closed.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Where would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?

My mother loved children – she would have given anything if I had been one.

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

Don’t wait for the last judgment – it takes place every day.

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin‘ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

I want to challenge you today to get out of your comfort zone. You have so much incredible potential on the inside. God has put gifts and talents in you that you probably don’t know anything about.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

Lots of songs aren’t even from my experiences, but they’re about accepting… the dark things about yourself.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

Love is a state of being.

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that sometimes I was fooling somebody; I don’t know who or what, maybe myself.

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

Emotions are continually affecting our thought processes and decisions, below the level of our awareness. And the most common emotion of them all is the desire for pleasure and the avoidance of pain.

How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.

The mind of a 19-year-old is very different from the mind of a 26-year-old. You grow. You get into better relationships. You experience more, meet more people, better people. But when you’re in a dark hole at an earlier point in your life – you write about the mindset you’re in at that moment.

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

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, ‚But how can it be like that?‘ because you will get ‚down the drain,‘ into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that.

The hippie movement politicized my generation. When it ended, we all started looking back at our own history, looking, in my case, for motives of rebellion.