I never fall in love.

I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I’m not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.

In 7th grade, I believe, I wrote my first rap song. It was about everything I was seeing, everything that was going on around me.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

I’m not a natural joiner.

Sometimes I’ve called writing a disease. If so, I’m glad that it caught me.

Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.

Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural.

In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don’t kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker.

Fear clogs; faith liberates.

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, ‚Did you sleep good?‘ I said ‚No, I made a few mistakes.‘

Your friend is your needs answered.

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

We’re hardwired for connection. There’s no arguing with the bioscience. But we can want it so badly we’re trying to hot-wire it.

I knew through the surgeries that he was on my side and that this wasn’t something where I was gonna feel less of a woman, because my husband wasn’t gonna let that happen.

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

I’m always attracted to people who interest me. They’ve got to be people who are really true to themselves somehow, and who are always trying to do something that makes their life more interesting, or better, or something for somebody else. They’re interested in people.

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.

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.

To me, a leader is someone who holds her- or himself accountable for finding potential in people and processes. And so what I think is really important is sustainability.

I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it’s a better way of telling the stories.

I’ve experienced great things, I’ve experienced great tragedies. I’ve done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there’s more.

Rocks and waters, etc., are words of God, and so are men. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love.

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you – gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

Tears are the silent language of grief.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can’t find.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

The best part about being in your thirties is you know what works for you.

It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

I had this child, and it destroyed my family.

I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist, and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think, ‚What a waste of energy.‘ If people want to believe in this god or that god, that’s fine by me; believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.

Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one’s heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I’m writing about New York.

For me, education was power.

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

I am radically, insanely, nutty in love with Jesus!

If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.

Any man who doesn’t love his mama can’t be no friend of mine.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

If a man’s character is to be abused there’s nobody like a relative to do the business.

I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

William Maxwell’s my favorite North American writer, I think. And an Irish writer who used to write for ‚The New Yorker‘ called Maeve Brennan, and Mary Lavin, another Irish writer. There were a lot of writers that I found in ‚The New Yorker‘ in the Fifties who wrote about the same type of material I did – about emotions and places.

I love stuff from the Holy Land. It makes me feel blessed.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Yes, it is one of my ultimate aims – it is the ultimate sense of football: to make the people happy, to let them live some emotions that you usually can’t get.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

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

Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.