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

I loved what I did. I could’ve been secretary of state for ever.

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

The law is reason, free from passion.

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.

I think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it’s hard.

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.

I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I’ll probably… drop writing children’s books and become a political cartoonist again.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

My focus is my art, and that’s what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I’ve turned down many things that I just didn’t believe in.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people’s happiness.

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

I had a rough childhood coming up, and I just took all that negative energy and made it very positive for myself to drive me. I’m a very driven person. I have passion that almost scares people, just to be successful and make it no matter what.

My dad was never married. He was kind of a rolling stone. But he was never disrespectful. At the same time, even though he had women in his life when I was a kid, there wasn’t any consistency.

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.

Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion – towards ourselves and towards all living beings.

I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I’m not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings – always darker, emptier and simpler.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

I’ve always loved the fans in Scotland and have a little Scottish blood of my own.

I’m not ashamed to say I fear something.

The fame isn’t important to me. It’s a blessing to have. Having so many people that support me, that love me and listen to my music, is beautiful.

I can’t make a song for a particular person or demographic. If I love it, I’m gonna do it. I have to perform it for the rest of my life. A song is like a tattoo – you can never get away from it.

One of the most terrible feelings in the world is knowing that someone else doesn’t like you. Especially when you don’t know what you’ve done to deserve it.

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that’s when I think life is over.

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little – somebody who is obsessed by Making.

Love is only one of many passions.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Where love is, there God is also.

All emotion is involuntary when genuine.

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.

Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night’s date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn’t think of looking at another woman.

For me, often, there’s such a cloud of melancholia about knowing I’m going to have to leave my daughter on her own. I don’t know what age that is going to be, thank God. It just doubles me up in grief.

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

A man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I’m afraid, have a tendency to hide our feelings.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

‚Love Story‘ is actually about a guy that I almost dated. But when I introduced him to my family and my friends, they all said they didn’t like him. All of them!

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.

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.

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn’t much. But the things that I’m really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I’m not successful, what do I have?

I don’t know what acting is, but I enjoy it.

Country radio is much more like a family than any other group of people that I’ve met.

If you get something right, you really feel it, right in your chest, on stage. I think it’s an incomparable experience.

The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!

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

Love is a state of being.