Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

The fact is that when you do something from your heart, you leave a heart print.

When you have good friends you’ve been around, every time they talk, you don’t give them your full attention. You don’t look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you’re listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.

The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I’d written, I don’t want to leave that behind.

All you need to do to be my friend is like me.

You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.

I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

When I’m in the studio, I’m looking for creativity I haven’t matched yet, a feeling I haven’t felt. It’s a high.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner’s inquest.

When you’re older you want to learn from other people.

To every soul that knows how to pray, to every soul that by faith comes to Jesus, the true mercy seat, divine sovereignty wears no dark and terrible aspect but is full of love.

I respect Chris Brown. I’d like to call myself a friend – I don’t know if I’m allowed to do that.

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

Even the most seemingly unpleasant situations – if you become aligned with it, something good will emerge from that.

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

To feel not only submitted but willing to be anything or nothing as the Lord wills it – this is, in truth, to sing a song to our Well Beloved.

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

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

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

I’m gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell ‚em out of the trunk of my car. I’m that kind of musician and singer.

We teach that God’s love for His children is infinite.

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

When I talk to kids, I’m really listening. When I do that, we have a little bit of a bigger connection than me being Kendrick Lamar and you being a student. It’s almost like we’re friends. Because a friend listens.

Take my wife… Please!

I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.

It’s in the difficult times that we’re growing and you can’t just rebuke everything hard. We’ve got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

The intensity of the football and how the people live football in Liverpool – it is not a usual.

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

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!

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I’m a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself – all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.

There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

A friend is nothing but a known enemy.

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

And die of nothing but a rage to live.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

Prayer is simply talking to God like a friend and should be the easiest thing we do each day.

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.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.

The joy and love that I get from playing football are unbelievable. It is such a feeling that I want to give everything that I have got. I just enjoy it, I am living a life that I never even dreamt of.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.