Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

If I’m not in love, if I’m not with a long-term companion, I cannot be happy.

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

I write for myself things that I’ve gone through.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

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.

More people should read books. It’s the most concentrated experience you can have.

Naturally, my stories are about women – I’m a woman. I don’t know what the term is for men who write mostly about men. I’m not always sure what is meant by ‚feminist.‘ In the beginning, I used to say, ‚Well, of course I’m a feminist.‘ But if it means that I follow a kind of feminist theory, or know anything about it, then I’m not.

I don’t think there’s anything unique about human intelligence.

There’s a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It’s deceptive because when you have pride, you’re usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn’t sell well.

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

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

Single life is so overrated.

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

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

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

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

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.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

I’ve never had a dislike for men. I’ve been badly treated by some. But I’ve been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

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!

As apostles and prophets, we are concerned not only for our children and grandchildren but for yours as well – and for each of God’s children.

In 1969, I gave up women and alcohol – it was the worst 20 minutes of my life.

I hated the Naked Chef. Fine, yes, he did good things for school food or whatever, but, you know, I don’t want my chefs to be cute and adorable.

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.

When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you… Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.

Speak low, if you speak love.

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

Every time I come to Europe, I’m just as excited as I was my very first time, which was many, many years ago. I love that part of the world, and I especially love the fans.

I’ve actually taken companies public, I’ve actually busted companies, I’ve actually gone broke.

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.

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.

I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors.

For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.

I don’t feel pressure in a negative way. I like pressure. I feel excitement and calm at the same time. No pressure, no diamonds. I want pressure: pressure creates drama, creates emotion.

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love – first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

I don’t look at a man who’s expert in one area as a specialist. I look at him as a rookie in ten other areas.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

‚Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

I’ve never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I’ve only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

I’m all about peace. I’m all about unity. I’m all about love.

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.