Love is not consolation. It is light.

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.

Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural.

A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

I don’t hate women – they just sometimes make me mad.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

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

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it’s just the thing that every man wants – to have a son and heir.

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

Hatred is inveterate anger.

Doing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, because you feel so much pressure to do well that night. But I think everyone’s grown to accept that and so they give me my space at the show.

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they’re already asleep.

Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It’s the fear that we’re not good enough.

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

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

There’s a part of you – the born-again part, your spirit – that’s dead to sin. That’s why it bothers you now when you sin. The ‚wilderness‘ part of you – your soul – is your unrenewed mind, out-of-control emotions, and stubborn will.

It’s hard for anybody who’s been with me not to feel starved for affection when I’m making love to my ideas. Maybe it’s not meant for me to settle down and be married.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: ‚This is my country.‘

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

If someone lies, well, you had a choice to trust that person or not. I think the way my father raised me, well, he trusted everybody. And that worked for him.

Crankiness is at the essence of all comedy. My wife and I were discussing the different types of cranky. There’s entertaining cranky, annoying cranky, angry cranky.

Olympics for me is love, peace, united.

My wife doesn’t even want to spend 2 hours with me.

In every parting there is an image of death.

I love life because what more is there?

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

I was gutted to leave my boyfriend at home when I started my tour, but taking my pillow was like taking a little bit of him with me.

Dear friends, we may well sing to our Beloved when it is near the time of our departure. It draws near, and as it approaches, we must not dread it, but rather thank God for it.

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

It could be if I fight in front of one person or one million people. It’s still the same emotions.

I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren’t susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

He didn’t come out of my belly, but my God, I’ve made his bones, because I’ve attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I’m so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

In each soul, God loves and partly saves the whole world which that soul sums up in an incommunicable and particular way.

Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.

The way to know life is to love many things.

I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

It’s not possible to stop love.

Listen with your eyes for feelings.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.

I love Manchester. Everyone knows that – I have said it many times. Manchester is in my heart.

For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.

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.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.