Love is the one wild card.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

I’m not ashamed to say I fear something.

What good am I? I can’t have kids. I can’t cook. I’ve been divorced three times. Who would want me?

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

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

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.

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.

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship – never.

I am who I am today because of my mother.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

If a man’s character is to be abused there’s nobody like a relative to do the business.

If every man loves his mother, he’s going to treat the ladies right, with love and respect.

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

Absolutely not. I have no problem with commitment. In fact, I love having someone in my life.

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.

I want someone who can trust that my big hands are going to take care of them.

Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.

I can’t relate to lazy people. We don’t speak the same language. I don’t understand you. I don’t want to understand you.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

But there is a difference between cozying up to power and being close to power.

Why do Jewish divorces cost so much? They’re worth it.

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

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.

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.

Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

I have a family, loving aunts, and a good home. No, on the surface I seem to have everything except my one true friend. All I think about when I’m with friends is having a good time. I can’t bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. We don’t seem to be able to get any closer, and that’s the problem.

When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn’t eat or sleep.

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

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

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

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

Anxiety and spiritual searching have been consistent themes with me, and that figures into my worldview. But I tend to make my songs sound like relationship songs.

I’m drawn to bad romances.

A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend – and he’s a priest.

I don’t think it’s possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.

Marriage is scary to me, man.

I can say I’d honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I’ve written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times.

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

The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but the Pope has the duty, in Christ’s name, to remind the rich to help the poor, to respect them, to promote them.

One of life’s terrible truths is that women like guys who seem to know what they’re doing.

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.

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

Not necessity, not desire – no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything – health, food, a place to live, entertainment – they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

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

The second time around, I’ll understand that, as a husband, my wife doesn’t care about my opinions. I just need to tell her the things that will continue to help me stack the brownie points.

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

We humans are self-absorbed by nature, and spend most of our time focusing inwardly on our emotions, on our wounds, on our fantasies.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don’t know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.