It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

My friends, there are no friends.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

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.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

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

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

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.

I love sleep; it’s my favorite.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

I want to marry Arline because I love her – which means I want to take care of her. That is all there is to it. I want to take care of her. I am anxious for the responsibilities and uncertainties of taking care of the girl I love.

A friend is nothing but a known enemy.

I’ve learned that we all change constantly. It’s rare to find that person who is growing with you in the same way at the same time, who encourages you to grow.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. Christ teaches that God is love.

I feel like I’m the kind of guy that would have kids before getting married. The first thing would be kids.

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?

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

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.

I never promise anything. I don’t promise anything to my mum. I don’t promise anything to the supporters.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.

I don’t think I get angry.

All cruelty springs from weakness.

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.

For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.

It’s easy to forget who you are.

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.

I am an over-achiever, and I want to be known for the good things in my life.

I’m not very articulate.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

My mom and I have always been there for each other. We had some tough times, but she was always there for me.

Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.

Never find fault with the absent.

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

I’m not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.

This is love: the flowering of love is meditation.

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

Anxiety and spiritual searching have been consistent themes with me, and that figures into my worldview. But I tend to make my songs sound like relationship songs.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

I am a bit of a solitude person – a solitary personality. I like being on my own. I don’t have any major friendships or relationships with people.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

I’m not a marketing person. I don’t ask myself questions. I go by instinct.

A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

I just think it’s so important not to take yourself too seriously.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

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.

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

God always wants us to be growing.

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

I don’t want enemies. I want friends, and I want them in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and loving whoever they want to.

Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

I didn’t get trained by the school system like other kids, and when I did concentrate on learning, my mind was cluttered and locked by the programming of the system.