It’s probably the worst feeling in the world, when you’re deeply and madly in love with a woman and you know she’s not feeling you the same way, and you don’t know why.

I mean, I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn’t mean I don’t get frustrated in my life.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

The joy and love that I get from playing football are unbelievable. It is such a feeling that I want to give everything that I have got. I just enjoy it, I am living a life that I never even dreamt of.

In time we hate that which we often fear.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

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

I’m a human being and I fall in love and sometimes I don’t have control of every situation.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.

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

I don’t think it’s possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

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.

The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

Yes, it is one of my ultimate aims – it is the ultimate sense of football: to make the people happy, to let them live some emotions that you usually can’t get.

I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.

My wife and I are very affectionate.

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin‘ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

One of life’s terrible truths is that women like guys who seem to know what they’re doing.

Any man who doesn’t love his mama can’t be no friend of mine.

I’ve missed out on a lot of things, going out with friends.

I’ve known and continue to know every one of these major world leaders by their first names, and I have access to them.

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

I am a very emotional guy. What I love, I do with all I have.

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

To feel not only submitted but willing to be anything or nothing as the Lord wills it – this is, in truth, to sing a song to our Well Beloved.

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

Women – always in trouble with them, but can’t live without them.

I’ve never been a boyfriend kind of girl.

Everyone has been in love, at some point or another.

To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.

‚The Story of Us‘ is about running into someone I had been in a relationship with at an awards show, and we were seated a few seats away from each other. I just wanted to say to him, ‚Is this killing you? Because it’s killing me.‘ But I didn’t. Because I couldn’t. Because we both had these silent shields up.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Mostly, my flying has been solo, but the preparation for it wasn’t. Without my husband’s help and encouragement, I could not have attempted what I have. Ours has been a contented and reasonable partnership, he with his solo jobs and I with mine. But always with work and play together, conducted under a satisfactory system of dual control.

When you really don’t like a guy, they’re all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they’re no longer interested.

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

I always wanted a great love affair: something that feels big and full, really honest, and enough. No moment should feel slight, false, or a little off. For me, it had to be everything.

Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

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

Few are drawn to the person whom others avoid and neglect; people gather around those who have already attracted interest.

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

I feel, as a songwriter, it’s one of the hardest things to do – to sit down and say how you feel.

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.

I’ll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it’s disappointing.

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

After all, life hasn’t much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

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.