Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o‘ the flatterer.

What’s really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.

I believe that I’m one of the best in the world at what I do, and that’s all I’ve ever wanted to be.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

When you face a ‚performance‘ that might provoke the ‚I’m scared‘ response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It’s more fun than ‚Dancing with the Stars!‘

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

For me, it’s about becoming a mogul, owning my own projects, and establishing myself as a funding producer. That’s what’s big to me. The movies and all that stuff are great, but the fact that I’m in a position to do what I want to do, however I want to do it and when I want to do it is bigger.

I’m pretty sure I don’t have any songs that are about how much I love someone. They’re all either about, like, ‚I hate you,‘ or ‚You make me hate me.‘

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one’s self.

Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can – that is their secret.

The ‚soul‘ is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.

I don’t have to ‚freedom-kiss‘ my wife when what I really want to do is French-kiss her.

We do not judge the people we love.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.

Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

I was gutted to leave my boyfriend at home when I started my tour, but taking my pillow was like taking a little bit of him with me.

People are already finding ways to make their music and play it in front of people and have a life in music, I guess, and I think that’s pretty much all you can ask.

Where would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.

Hip-hop saved my life, man. It’s the only thing I’ve ever been even decent at. I don’t know how to do anything else.

A true man hates no one.

The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

I just want to keep writing music.

I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever – was write novels.

By its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross. It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.

I think love is one of the purest things you can sing about. One of the best things you can sing about.

You can write a song about being in love with someone, but you don’t have to be in love with anyone.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

I’m definitely gaining new fans, and that’s the key of any success… gain more love.

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.

I don’t want enemies. I want friends, and I want them in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and loving whoever they want to.

The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I’ll never be hands-on on anything except software.

When I am playing baseball, I give it all that I have on the ball field. When the ball game is over, I certainly don’t take it home. My little girl who is sitting out there wouldn’t know the difference between a third strike and a foul ball. We don’t talk about baseball at home.

When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection, love is born.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.

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.

If I love you, I show you I love you every day. Little things, big things.

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

I’ve learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there’s no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.

In my heart, I am always a Raider.

The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

You can’t forgive without loving. And I don’t mean sentimentality. I don’t mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, ‚I forgive. I’m finished with it.‘

I’m the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren’t no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn’t know about them.

Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.

Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness and moderation is certain and durable.

My sorrow, when she’s here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

The only answer to fear is faith in God, knowing He loves you unconditionally and individually.