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

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don’t appreciate the moment until it’s passed.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But… it is better to be good than to be ugly.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

My love is a hummingbird sitting that quiet moment on the bough, as the same cat crouches.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

All I can do is try to create my own brand and have people appreciate me for that.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

There is so much that people take for granted.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

I’ve been careful in love. I’ve been careless in love. And I’ve had adventures I wouldn’t trade for anything.

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

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

I love great journalism. I appreciate it. I love a good, you know, I love good news stories. I love great books. I love great articles. I appreciate them so much, and they’ve been part of my education as a woman.

The language of all the interpretations, the translations, of the Judaic Bible and the Christian Bible, is musical, just wonderful. I read the Bible to myself; I’ll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

I dote on his very absence.

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.

My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

Where thou art, that is home.

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing – hopefully.

In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

You’ve got to invest in the world, you’ve got to read, you’ve got to go to art galleries, you’ve got to find out the names of plants. You’ve got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We’re amazing people.

I don’t know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens.

No man wants to settle down. It happens. Eventually you’re going to bump into somebody that makes you go, ‚Hmm, I don’t mind seeing this person every day.‘

I married my best friend that happens to be a girl.

I met my husband before I became a star, and he doesn’t care about any of it.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

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

I love to play. And fortunately, I don’t know a lot of musicians that suck. I know a bunch of really good ones, and they’re always up for playing.

The way to know life is to love many things.

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion.

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

A man makes you feel important – makes you glad you are a woman.

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

When one’s expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have.

If someone is right for you, you’ll know it.

Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I’ve never been in love before – I don’t really know? I think I have. I guess it’s subjective in that way.

I know love is the answer.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace marked on the heart of the element by the psychical convergence of the universe upon itself.

I try not to go around looking like a hag.

Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are.