Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

There’s not much time to unwind, but you know what, it’s because I love what I do. I look forward to the season. I look forward to playing games. It doesn’t ever feel like work.

Of all nature’s gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

Love is a state of being.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I’m trying to say is I’m trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

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

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.

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

My wife and I are very affectionate.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it’s almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.

My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I’ve had. And now that I’m in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won’t be half as much anger as there was.

We never love a person, but only qualities.

I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other – and we still are.

We can’t form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

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

Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.

If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.

Love is an interesting thing.

I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

I love Brad in every state.

The heart is forever inexperienced.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.

Jesus is a divine guest inside of you all the time – one who loves, understands, sees and hears you. He wants to live in oneness with you… to be the centerpiece of everything you do.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

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

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

There is a ‚sanctity‘ involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Love is the most powerful thing in the world, and you know, what love brings is joy.

I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few.

I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.

Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

My mother fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56. She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold them in her arms. But my other children will never have the chance to know her and experience how loving and gracious she was.

The truth is God created us to have relationship with us. He wants to love us and take care of us, and He wants us to love Him. That’s where our walk with Christ has to start.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

I was very worried about my mother, growing up – a lot. I do not want my children to be worried about me.

When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what’s in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.