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

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

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.

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.

People like music when they’re in love, but they don’t need it as much. You need music when you’re missing someone or you’re pining for someone or you’re forgetting someone or you’re trying to process what just happened.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.

Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

God just has a way of working things out the way he wants to and you have no say in that.

I think it’s healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care – that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o‘ the flatterer.

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe what a man says himself rather than what people say he says.

I desire to press forward for direction to my Master in all things; but as to trusting to my own obedience and righteousness, I should be worse than a fool and ten times worse than a madman.

My experiences in life are getting bigger and better. The more stuff I do, the more stuff I talk about – having kids, traveling, going through relationship problems, dealing with things in my own family. All that stuff builds character.

It’s probably the worst feeling in the world, when you’re deeply and madly in love with a woman and you know she’s not feeling you the same way, and you don’t know why.

You better take care of me Lord, if you don’t you’re gonna have me on your hands.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

You know, you can only lead them from behind.

The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable – and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

When we’re looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.

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

Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

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

Friends are thieves of time.

To be loved is very demoralizing.

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.

My wife and I don’t compete. We know each other’s preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That’s what friends do.

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‚I’ll buy a million dollars‘ worth of love.‘ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

It’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

Love is a state of being.

To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates.

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

What you guys want, I’m for.

Sometimes God will deliver you from the fire, and other times God will make you fireproof.

The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody’s ego, that’s it, game over.

I’ve done the bad-boy thing. It was fun for a good three months. But the thing about bad boys is, you have to keep in mind, you’re never gonna marry a bad boy.

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

Love can do much, but duty more.

He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.

The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they’re gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you’re going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.

I never fall in love.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

I was adored once too.

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

We can’t all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.

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

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

You gotta understand: I believe a woman should praise the man, the king. If you holding it down for your woman, I feel like the woman should praise. And the man should praise the queen.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it’s a good place that we’re all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.