I love those who yearn for the impossible.

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

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

I always knew that St. Jude was an amazing organization but meeting the kids and seeing how the hospital works first hand was truly beautiful. It doesn’t feel like a regular hospital all dreary and sad. It’s a colorful, beautiful, comfortable, fun place to live and the energy is wonderful.

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.

We live in a culture that relishes tearing others down. It’s ultimately more fulfilling, though, to help people reach their goals. Instead of feeling jealous, remember: If God did it for them, He can do it for you.

In God’s family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.

People want to feel hopeful.

We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

When you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish – people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people – and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you’ve got to let it grow.

‚Lives‘ is one of those books I should really have written when I was younger. It is the classic childhood, adolescence, breakthrough-into-maturity book. Every beginning writer has that material – and after that, you’re not sure what you can do.

There’s love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we’re alone in our heads.

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

There’s so much about Dolly Parton that every female artist should look to, whether it’s reading her quotes or reading her interviews or going to one of her live shows. She’s been such an amazing example to every female songwriter out there.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

It has been hard for me to find it, but I have found love.

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

Young people can create beautiful things.

Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

All you need is love.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain – we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy.

When I heard ‚Jesus, Take the Wheel,‘ I was like, OK. Some people look at it as a song written for an American Idol, Carrie Underwood, who is wonderful. But when you’re a songwriter listening to a song, you hear something else. I heard that song, and wow.

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it’s like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

When you really don’t like a guy, they’re all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they’re no longer interested.

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.

Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It’s the same with me and writing.

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 men I idolized built their bodies and became somebody – like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger – and I thought, ‚That can be me.‘ So I started working out. The funny thing is I didn’t realize back then that I was having a defining moment.

No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

There is no blue without yellow and without orange.

Of all nature’s gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

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.

What is the use of writing plays, what is the use of writing anything, if there is not a will which finally moulds chaos itself into a race of gods.

I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.

Becoming an inspiration for kids is great. I want to inspire them to do whatever they want to.

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.

Bob Dylan is like an alien on this earth, and I love him! I cried when I saw him play live because I was so close to him.

When you’re around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it’s not strange, it’s just Gaga.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.