I think we all change each other’s paths. I don’t know which law idea that is in physics, but I don’t think any of us can live without affecting one another.

I am not enough of a mathematician to be able to judge either the well-foundedness or the limits of relativity in physics.

In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

A precedent embalms a principle.

People were saying that David Geffen and I had gotten married and it just blew me away. Not that they thought I was gay, but that they thought I could land a guy that hot.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

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

What’s dangerous is not to evolve.

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.

I searched for years I found no love. I’m sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.

Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don’t think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.

Things don’t have to change the world to be important.

You can’t trust very many people.

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

I want someone who can trust that my big hands are going to take care of them.

Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I’ve never been in love before – I don’t really know? I think I have. I guess it’s subjective in that way.

Only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

There are no rules when it comes to love.

New roads; new ruts.

I’m very active on social media and see the huge impact it has on engaging with fans and being able to have a voice.

I never thought I’d have children; I never thought I’d be in love, I never thought I’d meet the right person. Having come from a broken home – you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don’t look for them.

So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.

Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night’s date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn’t think of looking at another woman.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

But there is a difference between cozying up to power and being close to power.

Power does not change you, it unmasks you.

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

Who, being loved, is poor?

Great loves too must be endured.

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

Dividers seek to make themselves look or feel better by making others feel worse. They damage relationships, fracture teams and organizations, and create havoc in people’s lives.

If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again.

I don’t believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I’m doin‘ now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.

What’s really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

Love is a serious mental disease.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

I don’t think there’s an option for me to fall in love slowly or at medium speed. I either do, or I don’t.

While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I’m no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women.

I don’t keep people around me that aren’t family. You don’t get to stay. Unless you’re eating at the table with us, you’re not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.

Many things shall change in Cuba, but they shall change because of our efforts and despite the United States. Perhaps that empire shall crumble first.

I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.

I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.

Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.