Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

The human heart is the same the world over.

Love is the one wild card.

The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

I only act from my heart.

I think the perfection of love is that it’s not perfect.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

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

Prayer is such a basic foundation of a Christian’s relationship with God. It’s how we communicate and fellowship with Him. But a surprising number of people, young and old, new and even long-time Christians, say they’re not satisfied with their prayer life.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

I feel like people can relate to me because we all go through wins and roadblocks and passion and pain, and it’s a vibe.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

Many people tell me that they don ‚t know what to feel when they finish one of my books because the story was dark, or complicated, or strange. But while they were reading it, they were inside my world and they were happy. That’s good.

When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts.

You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren’t susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

If merely ‚feeling good‘ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Occasionally, some brother sings very earnestly through his nose, often disturbing those around him, but it does not matter how the voice sounds to the ears of man. What is important is how the heart sounds to the ears of God.

It obviously bothers people when Real Madrid win. It makes them jealous. There isn’t a level playing field.

Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

It’s still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.

There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls, but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd. Of course, I expect this, but the knife still cuts.

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations.

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.

Crankiness is at the essence of all comedy. My wife and I were discussing the different types of cranky. There’s entertaining cranky, annoying cranky, angry cranky.

I think ‚The Color Purple‘ is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe.

It’s impossible to live a life totally free of feelings. God created all of us to be emotional creatures, and feelings are a big part of our lives.

I’m a songwriter. Everything affects me.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

When I think of the love I feel for each member of our family, I sense, to a slight degree, the love that our Heavenly Father bears for His children.

I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen.

I really didn’t consider myself happy or unhappy.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn’t mean what you have isn’t beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have – no one is ever 100 per cent like, ‚Yes, I’m the bomb dot com – from head to toe!‘

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.

Hatred is settled anger.

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity… The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

I know that there are millions of Americans who are content with their health care coverage – they like their plan and, most importantly, they value their relationship with their doctor.

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

The word ‚happy‘ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

You can draw inspiration from anything. If you’re a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you’re casually talking to says something that makes you so mad – you can create an entire scenario around that.

The fact is that when you do something from your heart, you leave a heart print.

Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.

Hear reason, or she’ll make you feel her.

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.

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.

Living big and joyful and content is almost always the result of our finding satisfaction in life’s ordinary day-to-day pleasures. And God must be fond of them, too, for He made so many of them for us to enjoy.