Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

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

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

I love America, it’s a much more permissive place.

There are no rules when it comes to love.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own.

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite.

I have discovered that my interest in my dear pupil, Mabel, has ripened into a far deeper feeling than that of mere friendship. In fact, I know that I have learned to love her very sincerely.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Treat your children like the blessings they are or don’t have them at all.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Love is a state of being.

Lovers often invest their first meetings with retrospective significance, as if to try to conjure the elements of the numinous out of the stubborn witness of the everyday.

Here’s what I’ve learned about deal-breakers. If you have enough natural chemistry with someone, you overlook every single thing that you said would break the deal.

I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.

I like to reminisce with people I don’t know.

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.

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature’s gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.

I’ve had no contact with my daughter for years. That’s her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don’t want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it’s to have any meaning in this world – and stop being its apologist.

Like associates with like.

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

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.

During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.

I have a really close relationship with Mike Bloomberg.

For me, it’s about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It’s where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that’s very important to me.

When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it’s been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can’t stop thinking about.

No, we don’t own our children. Our parental privilege is to love them, to lead them, and to let them go.

Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.

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

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

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

When you’re traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonically, lyrically, visually. Conversations with women with different accents and stories told in those accents. I like to create characters based on different people I’ve met, and relationships. I like to tell stories loosely based on real-life events.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

Basically my wife was immature. I’d be at home in the bath and she’d come in and sink my boats.

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.

Me don’t dip on nobody’s side. Me don’t dip on the black man’s side, not the white man’s side. Me dip on God’s side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

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.

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies – or else? The chain reaction of evil – hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars – must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

I would like to express the thoughts of a man who, having finally penetrated the partitions and ceilings of little countries, little coteries, little sects, rises above all these categories and finds himself a child and citizen of the Earth.

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

Our focus needs to be less on what our legacy’s going to be or how we can control each other and more how we can give to each other.

When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you; without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way.

Though lovers be lost, love shall not.

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.