It is necessary to fall in love… if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

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.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don’t accept it, it’s their loss.

Love is a state of being.

The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.

No, I’m not anguished and tormented.

I love America, it’s a much more permissive place.

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can’t put a dollar sign on.

I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women… no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.

You pay a certain penalty for going your own way. A lot of people think you’re nuts, and you’re not as popular with girls as you should be.

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

It isn’t necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.

Do you not realize that the love the Father bestowed on the perfect Christ He now bestows on you?

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours.

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.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.

I absolutely adore Christmas.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

I am radically, insanely, nutty in love with Jesus!

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.

Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.

Children make your life important.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Logically, harmony must come from the heart… Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.

What I’ve discovered is that in art, as in music, there’s a lot of truth-and then there’s a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It’s the moment that the audience falls in love.

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

I think I have the nicest fans in the world, and I quite like being surrounded by people if we’re all feeling the same emotion in the same room.

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.

Sometimes you can’t prioritise family and you feel guilty.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

Dear friends, we may well sing to our Beloved when it is near the time of our departure. It draws near, and as it approaches, we must not dread it, but rather thank God for it.

I hate smiling. It makes me feel weak and powerless and small. I’ve always been like that; I don’t smile in any pictures.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

Speak low, if you speak love.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

Politics doesn’t make strange bedfellows – marriage does.

I love Manchester. Everyone knows that – I have said it many times. Manchester is in my heart.

I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it’s my mind.

I think that it’s okay to be mad at someone who hurt you. This isn’t about, like, the pageantry of trying to seem like nothing affects you.

I’m tired. I’m tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I’m tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war.

I think there are things that are based in your own dealings with someone that is a personal dealing, not a public dealing. Because you have personal experiences.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.

Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

Love to everybody who is out there progressing and taking things to the next level.

Brad was a huge surprise to me. I think we were both the last two people who were looking for a relationship. I certainly wasn’t. I was quite content to be a single mom with Mad.

I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.