I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don’t know if it’s possible forever and ever.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

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.

The sadness of the women’s movement is that they don’t allow the necessity of love. See, I don’t personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

How much better it would be if all could be more aware of God’s providence and love and express that gratitude to Him.

I absolutely adore Christmas.

I don’t have time to be lonely. And I get fearful of relationships because I feel guilty about wanting someone to be completely faithful and loyal, when I can’t even give them 10 percent of the attention that they need. It’s just the reality of my time, my life, my schedule.

We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.

Within one’s own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.

When I worked on a magazine, I learned that there are many, many writers writing that can’t write at all; and they keep on writing all the cliches and bromides and 1890 plots, and poems about Spring and poems about Love, and poems they think are modern because they are done in slang or staccato style, or written with all the ‚i’s‘ small.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.

My audience went, ‚Wait, why is she singing jazz? What’s going on?‘ And then they went, ‚Oh, because she can. Because she loves it.‘ And jazz, a music invented by the African-American community, is the greatest art form, I believe, to have ever come out of this country.

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

Anxiety and spiritual searching have been consistent themes with me, and that figures into my worldview. But I tend to make my songs sound like relationship songs.

When I think of the love I feel for each member of our family, I sense, to a slight degree, the love that our Heavenly Father bears for His children.

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

Success isn’t supposed to happen, no matter how hard you work. There’s no guarantee you’re going to succeed. There’s nothing set in stone.

I’ve had moments when I’ve thought about somebody, picked up the phone to call them and they are on the line already, and I think that maybe there’s some vibration, some connection.

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one’s self.

Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who’ll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you’re in the wrong house, that’s what it means.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

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 long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

It’s always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you’re seeing the most beautiful thing on God’s Earth.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Doing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, because you feel so much pressure to do well that night. But I think everyone’s grown to accept that and so they give me my space at the show.

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

I’ve learned that usually, the less I know about other people, the better off I am.

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

My family is very good about visiting me, and other friends as well.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Logically, harmony must come from the heart… Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It’s one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

Crazy players love me. I don’t know why.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

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

If I wouldn’t have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.

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

It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it’s with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.

Love is a state of being.

I’m working at trying to be a Christian, and that’s serious business. It’s like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy – it’s serious business.

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

Speak low, if you speak love.

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

Delhi means everything to me. This city has given me everything, and I love it.

If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.

One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

Some scientists believe climate change is the cause of unprecedented melting of the North Pole, and that effects these very uncertain weather patterns. I think we should listen to those scientists and experts.

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don’t know if I’ll ever be as good a dad as my dad.

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?