Love is an interesting thing.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

Mad or glad, Mr. Reagan is head over heels in love with Mrs. Reagan and can’t even imagine a world without her – He loves her.

My mother did not like children.

I wish I knew why I am so anguished.

I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

Everything is clearer when you’re in love.

I always wanted to be loved.

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

The uncertainty of parenting can bring up feelings in us that range from frustration to terror.

Men exist for the sake of one another.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.

When we’re falling in love or out of it, that’s when we most need a song that says how we feel. Yeah, I write a lot of songs about boys. And I’m very happy to do that.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me.

Grief changes shape, but it never ends.

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

There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

If you like it you should enjoy it! Moderation in everything. If there’s things you really love, you should enjoy. You get one life, so you should enjoy it.

If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

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

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

I didn’t have a father figure in the house.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

I love life because what more is there?

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

All you need is love.

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

I don’t think there’s an option for me to fall in love slowly or at medium speed. I either do, or I don’t.

The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

In one day, I have times where I’m feeling great, I feel like I love my life, and then 2:30 rolls around and I’m the angriest man alive. My wife sees it.

I’m such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.

Assuming if there’s such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?

I had this child, and it destroyed my family.

If you cry over a guy, then your friends can’t date him. It can’t even be considered.

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

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

Love to everybody who is out there progressing and taking things to the next level.

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

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

If you wished to be loved, love.

If you get down and quarell everyday, you’re saying prayers to the devil, I say.

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.

Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I’ve never been in love before – I don’t really know? I think I have. I guess it’s subjective in that way.

People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like – that’s a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.

I wrote my first song at 12 and remember someone asking, ‚What were you going through at 12 that you could write about?‘ I get what you’re saying, but 11, 12, 13 were the hardest years of my life. You learn everything. You learn how horrible things feel.

I don’t have a type. I don’t have a specific kind of human being. It’s just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I’ve ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.

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

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

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or ‚our‘ country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.