If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

When people say, you know, ‚Good teacher,‘ ‚Prophet,‘ ‚Really nice guy’… this is not how Jesus thought of Himself. So you’re left with a challenge in that, which is either Jesus was who he said he was or a complete and utter nut case. You have to make a choice on that.

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

Man – a being in search of meaning.

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

I was 14, and I fell in love with Pink Floyd.

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Has Jesus saved me? I dare not speak with any hesitation here; I know He has. His Word is true; therefore, I am saved.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.

All I know is that, thanks to a sort of habit which has always been ingrained in me, I have never, at any moment of my life, experienced the least difficulty in addressing myself to God as to a supreme Someone.

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship – never.

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.

Such as we are made of, such we be.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.

I think Bible principles are principles for life.

I’ve never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I’ve only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

Luck is believing you’re lucky.

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.

When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can’t be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.

I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I’m super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both.

We loved with a love that was more than love.

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Here’s the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don’t find it anywhere else.

If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England – you couldn’t have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.

A man’s felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?

Knowledge is true opinion.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

I’ve got a crush on my backing singer.

I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

We all die, we all get sick, we all feel hunger and lust and pain, and therefore human life is consistent from one generation to the other. We all – most of us, anyway – want connections with other people and spend our lives looking for them.

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.

Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.