I was adored once too.

I grew up listening to the Police, I grew up performing in bars, singing Police songs.

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: ‚This is my country.‘

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author’s world.

We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

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

Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?

I’ve found that men I’ve dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I’ve found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren’t competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been… challenging.

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.

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

I purposely don’t talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But I do say that I want you to be blessed. To me, prosperity is having health, having great children, having peace, good relationships. It’s not about the money.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

It’s true that I’ve never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

I don’t like cream puff, corny guys. Usually, they are the nice guys, the ones that won’t hurt you. They’ll pull out the chair for you and the whole nine yards. Everything is perfect and boring.

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

Letters are something from you. It’s a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail.

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.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

A family shares hardships and a connected history.

Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.

There’s nothing hippie about my picture of Christ. The Gospels paint a picture of a very demanding, sometimes divisive love, but love it is.

In my heart, I’m just a kid from the council houses. I can remember the old cottage and my dad coming round with the tin bath. I’m not a rich man.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.

Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

When I was 8 years old, it mattered what my favorite singer said and wore and expressed opinions about.

This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.

If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

You’re unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

You do indeed have a past, but not now! And, yes, you have a future, but not now! You can consume your now with thoughts of ‚then‘ and ‚maybe,‘ but that will keep you from the inner peace you could experience.

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.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

No matter how beautiful a woman might be, you’re always threatened by certain… You’re always threatened by other women, period.

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.

If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.

In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that’s called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.

The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it’s almost impossible to stamp out.

Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God’s divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego’s insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you.

We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow’s nest of that ship.

A man’s only as old as the woman he feels.

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

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

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.