Love always ends differently and it always begins differently – especially with me.

I’ve done the bad-boy thing. It was fun for a good three months. But the thing about bad boys is, you have to keep in mind, you’re never gonna marry a bad boy.

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.

He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

What women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

Your emotions are very unstable and should never be the foundation for direction in your life.

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

There was one incident at a movie theater where my girl got mad at these guys who were talking behind us. I never looked back there, but she was like, ‚Will you all just shut up!‘ And I just got up and moved three rows in front. She was like, ‚What are you doing?!‘ I was like, ‚You better get up here! I don’t play the fighting games.‘

You’ll never do a whole lot unless you’re brave enough to try.

Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.

It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.

I thank God I’m myself and for the life I’m given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.

If you choose to do something, attack it. You can hate me, but there’s one thing you can’t say about me – that I didn’t attack it.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

At one time, I was very angry. I even treated fashion like a kind of crusade: you were either with us or against us, that kind of feeling. Now I know we need ideas, not kicking down a door.

I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.

Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man’s resources?

Most of the people that I deal with are human. So I’ve had a lot of experience with that.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

I’ve lived a very colorful life, and I’ve said some things, But not once have I taken them back, and I’ve never apologized for them – and I won’t.

First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.

I’m reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.

I allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I’m not afraid of my flaws.

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

The sadness of the women’s movement is that they don’t allow the necessity of love. See, I don’t personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who’ll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you’re in the wrong house, that’s what it means.

Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can’t ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment’s notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow – that’s vulnerability.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

The key to winning is choosing to do God’s will and loving others with all you’ve got.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Just because something didn’t work out your way, or somebody disappointed you, that does not change who you are.

Anxiety and spiritual searching have been consistent themes with me, and that figures into my worldview. But I tend to make my songs sound like relationship songs.

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

I’ve never been a jealous person, and I’ve never felt built up by someone else’s failure – that’s a cheap thrill.

I am God’s vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.

The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosopher’s or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself, and that is why you must know yourself – Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self.

The reason children accept discipline from their parents is because they know their parents love them.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

It’s amazing: I am a New Yorker. It’s strange; I never thought I would be.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.

The dreams and passions stored within hearts are powerful keys which can unlock a wealth of potential.

I always keep my guard up with guys and I guess that can get in the way sometimes. I can make them go through hell.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

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

It always seems odd to me that the fundamental laws of physics, when discovered, can appear in so many different forms that are not apparently identical at first, but, with a little mathematical fiddling, you can show the relationship.

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

I never expected to be anybody important.

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!

I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.