It’s not possible to stop love.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings – always darker, emptier and simpler.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

I like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.

I was always interested in choreography – in making people think and feel something.

I can imagine it’s hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn’t know.

I really didn’t consider myself happy or unhappy.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

The mind of a 19-year-old is very different from the mind of a 26-year-old. You grow. You get into better relationships. You experience more, meet more people, better people. But when you’re in a dark hole at an earlier point in your life – you write about the mindset you’re in at that moment.

Actually, you have to be a little bit in love with your leading man and vice versa. If you’re going to portray love, you have to feel it. You can’t do it any other way. But you don’t carry it beyond the set.

No one was more shocked or angry than I was when we didn’t find the weapons. I had a sickening feeling every time I thought about it. I still do.

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.

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

I could fall in love with a sumo wrestler if he told stories and made me laugh. Obviously, it would be easier if someone was African-American and lived next door and went to the same church. Because then I wouldn’t have to translate.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

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

For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

My mom, she was a very, very soft woman. It was hard for her to yell or even curse. But when it came to fighting for her kids, she found a strength she didn’t always know she had.

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

People have different emotional levels. Especially when you’re young.

What the heck is true love? I remember feeling, back when I was 12 and ‚going‘ with this girl, ‚Is this true love?‘

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

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.

I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.

We will always be a family. Always.

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.

For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

Ever since I dated a woman, I know what it is to grab a curve on a woman’s body. Skinny’s not fine when the lights are low.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

We all have two lives: an inner life and an outer life. Your inner life is your soul life, which includes your mind, will and emotions. Your outer life is your physical life. And while God cares about every detail of your life, He is more concerned with your inner life than your outer life.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

Having a child, that’s always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.

I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It’s a natural process.

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 each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

I have no human feelings.

To get a hold on boys you must be their friend.

The emotions in a song – the anger, aggression – have got to be legitimate.

Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

It’s so much easier to like people, and to let people in, to trust them until they prove that you should do otherwise. The alternative is being an iceberg.

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

We love things we love what they are.

Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

I searched for years I found no love. I’m sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.