Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

They are resilient children, but they are children, and as much as they need help to understand the hard truths in life, they also need what we all need – protection and love.

It’s with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

If someone lies, well, you had a choice to trust that person or not. I think the way my father raised me, well, he trusted everybody. And that worked for him.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action, which produces further confusion, further misery.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

I’m not ashamed to say I fear something.

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

The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes – or just by staring into space.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don’t think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I’m with them.

I left Mainz after 18 years and thought, ‚Next time, I will work with a little less of my heart.‘ I said that because we all cried for a week. The city gave us a goodbye party, and it lasted a week.

If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you’d would wake up times and hope that the next day you’d be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.

I love performing, you know, because, like I say, I’m a ham for this stuff.

There are no rules when it comes to love.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

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

Strong emotions such as passion and bliss are indications that you’re connected to Spirit, or ‚inspired,‘ if you will. When you’re inspired, you activate dormant forces, and the abundance you seek in any form comes streaming into your life.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

I didn’t have a father figure in the house.

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we’re blood.

Pay attention, don’t let life go by you. Fall in love with the back of your cereal box.

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

When I was a teenager, I thought how great it would be if only I could write novels in English. I had the feeling that I would be able to express my emotions so much more directly than if I wrote in Japanese.

I know that I’m not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don’t know how not to.

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.

For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

I don’t think you ever really know what all you’re doing, so you have to act on faith.

I’m not afraid to write my feelings in songs.

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

An onion can make people cry but there’s never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.

What keeps me motivated is love and passion.

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

I don’t know what’s better gettin‘ laid or gettin‘ paid.

Men and women do think differently, and frankly, we don’t understand each other. Not at all! But that’s what makes relationships so amazing.

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

You don’t sign up for a divorce when you get married. It’s very painful. But it’s taught me a great deal about myself.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

I never thought I’d have children; I never thought I’d be in love, I never thought I’d meet the right person. Having come from a broken home – you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don’t look for them.

As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me.

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

People always say when they meet me that I’m not what they expect. I assume they think I’m this super dark and depressing guy, but I like to channel all of those emotions into my work.

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.