Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

That is what fame is, isn’t it? To get the world to fall in love with you.

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

The mineral world is a much more supple and mobile world than could be imagined by the science of the ancients. Vaguely analogous to the metamorphoses of living creatures, there occurs in the most solid rocks, as we now know, perpetual transformation of a mineral species.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

I’m convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they’re stones that don’t matter. As long as you’re breathing, it’s never too late to do some good.

Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.

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

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

Never be ashamed! There’s some who’ll hold it against you, but they’re not worth bothering with.

I think happiness is a goal all of us can agree on. Let’s face it – we all would like to be happy.

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

Counsel with your parents is a privilege at any age.

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

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

When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.

My mom, she was a very, very soft woman. It was hard for her to yell or even curse. But when it came to fighting for her kids, she found a strength she didn’t always know she had.

I’m not a bad person.

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

I don’t have any stress. I’m very lucky. I live a very healthy life.

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.

I try to see the good in everybody, and I don’t care who people are as long as they’re themselves, whatever that is.

I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another.

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.

No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

A fit body gives you confidence. And there’s nothing more impressive than a great attitude, which you can wear on your sleeve. But you’ll have to remember the difference between being rude and being confident.

In the real world, children love me.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

In one day, I have times where I’m feeling great, I feel like I love my life, and then 2:30 rolls around and I’m the angriest man alive. My wife sees it.

Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.

A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I’m writing about New York.

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you’d would wake up times and hope that the next day you’d be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.

Every wall is a door.

I’ve seen my friends take someone back after they’ve cheated because they fit perfectly.

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.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

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.

Many things shall change in Cuba, but they shall change because of our efforts and despite the United States. Perhaps that empire shall crumble first.

Catering to bad feelings feeds and empowers them.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.

One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.

I am a bit of a solitude person – a solitary personality. I like being on my own. I don’t have any major friendships or relationships with people.

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

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

Well, I wouldn’t say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

When we enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, something wonderful happens: God begins to change our desires, and we want to be more like Him.

You’ve got to have faith in what you’re doing and not take no for an answer.

It’s the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It’s experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.