Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

In married life three is company and two none.

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

Do you not realize that the love the Father bestowed on the perfect Christ He now bestows on you?

I think the perfection of love is that it’s not perfect.

I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all.

I’m a human being and I fall in love and sometimes I don’t have control of every situation.

That is what fame is, isn’t it? To get the world to fall in love with you.

Brad was a huge surprise to me. I think we were both the last two people who were looking for a relationship. I certainly wasn’t. I was quite content to be a single mom with Mad.

I think everyone should be with who they love.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

A friend is nothing but a known enemy.

I had this child, and it destroyed my family.

I love life because what more is there?

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

The heart is forever inexperienced.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

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’m working at trying to be a Christian, and that’s serious business. It’s like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy – it’s serious business.

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

He who hath many friends hath none.

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

A pessimist? That’s a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.

I love to play. And fortunately, I don’t know a lot of musicians that suck. I know a bunch of really good ones, and they’re always up for playing.

Life loves the liver of it.

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

You can’t be in love with a Google search.

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.

I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

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

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

Actually, you have to be a little bit in love with your leading man and vice versa. If you’re going to portray love, you have to feel it. You can’t do it any other way. But you don’t carry it beyond the set.

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

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

I do have a lot of gays in my family now, but some will never come out.

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

There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.

Nicki Minaj, I’m at MTV. I’m going to be honest with you: I love you. I like you. I want you; I want you to be mine. Only reason I’m not telling you this face to face is because I understand that you’re busy.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they’re not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don’t care about money, and that’s not my problem.

A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I’m writing about New York.

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

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad.

God wants to help us… He loves us… we are His children. But He will not force His help on us at any time. He sees us when we struggle and fight and complain our way through things. And I believe it breaks His heart, when all we have to do is ask Him for help.