Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

Everyone has been in love, at some point or another.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood.

I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn’t care what kind of movies I made.

We all get weary sometimes, and we tend to think that life is what makes us weary.

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

There is no such thing as a lovers‘ oath.

I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems.

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

I married my best friend that happens to be a girl.

I don’t hate women – they just sometimes make me mad.

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.

Depression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement.

Familiarity breeds contempt – and children.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

Single life is so overrated.

The more I grow in popularity, the lonelier it gets. Because you don’t really know me. You just know this part of me. You fell in love with that. But it’s way more intricate than what meets the surface.

Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair.

Bob Dylan is like an alien on this earth, and I love him! I cried when I saw him play live because I was so close to him.

Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

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.

My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.

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

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

Logically, harmony must come from the heart… Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.

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

Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It’s the fear that we’re not good enough.

I didn’t mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

But there is a difference between cozying up to power and being close to power.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God’s divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego’s insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you.

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

I’ve never had a divorce, but I’ve seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can’t write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I’m able to kind of express it, or their joy.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

My mother loved children – she would have given anything if I had been one.

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

To be clear: we have fights and problems like any other couple.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

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

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

I know I’m talented, but I wasn’t put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but it’s not where it begins and ends.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

I know that a large part of my fan base is gay. They’ve shown me love from the start. I mean in this industry, everyone from my glam people to my dancers are gay. You can’t be homophobic in this line of work – I’m a pop star!

The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.

I can’t deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

I don’t like people going behind my back.

Love is a state of being.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.