I think the perfection of love is that it’s not perfect.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

I dote on his very absence.

People like to hear the word ‚love.‘

I love to play. And fortunately, I don’t know a lot of musicians that suck. I know a bunch of really good ones, and they’re always up for playing.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

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

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you’re making a mistake but let you go on with it, that’s when it ruins your mind state as an artist.

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

Everyone has been in love, at some point or another.

Country radio is much more like a family than any other group of people that I’ve met.

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.

I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.

If you get something right, you really feel it, right in your chest, on stage. I think it’s an incomparable experience.

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.

There are two kinds of people in this world. ‚I‘ people and ‚we‘ people. I’ve always tried to be a ‚we‘ person.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

In order to have friends, you must first be one.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

I’ve had no contact with my daughter for years. That’s her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don’t want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

That is what fame is, isn’t it? To get the world to fall in love with you.

I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals.

What keeps me motivated is love and passion.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

In my house I’m the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.

I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair.

I love the sea.

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

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

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

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

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

A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: ‚Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?‘ We must always consider the person.

I’m not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

Friend, there’s no greater investment in life than in being a people builder. Relationships are more important than our accomplishments.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

That’s what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he’s wise.

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

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

As I’m traveling around, I meet many small children. And when I look at a small and think how we’ve harmed this beautiful planet since I was that age, I feel a kind of desperation, anger, shame. I don’t know what I feel; I just don’t know what the emotion is.

When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.

Jealousy… is a mental cancer.

There’s a part of you – the born-again part, your spirit – that’s dead to sin. That’s why it bothers you now when you sin. The ‚wilderness‘ part of you – your soul – is your unrenewed mind, out-of-control emotions, and stubborn will.

The Bible tells us to be perfect. This is likely a scary thought for many people. It used to scare me. I didn’t think I could ever get there, no matter how hard I tried.