Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.

I love food.

When you face a ‚performance‘ that might provoke the ‚I’m scared‘ response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It’s more fun than ‚Dancing with the Stars!‘

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

I had this child, and it destroyed my family.

The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.

I’ll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics.

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

You can’t trust very many people.

The sadness of the women’s movement is that they don’t allow the necessity of love. See, I don’t personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.

There’s nothing hippie about my picture of Christ. The Gospels paint a picture of a very demanding, sometimes divisive love, but love it is.

I would be married, but I’d have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

I give unto my wife my second best bed with the furniture.

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.

There’s nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It’s a thing no married man knows anything about.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

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.

Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.

We are not actually equal – humanity – if we are not allowed to freely love one another.

There are no rules when it comes to love.

What’s really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.

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

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

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

In the Western Church to which I belong, priests cannot be married as in the Byzantine, Ukrainian, Russian or Greek Catholic Churches. In those churches, the priests can be married, but the bishops have to be celibate. They are very good priests.

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

Olympics for me is love, peace, united.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

I thank God I’m myself and for the life I’m given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.

Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it’s a green light.

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

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I’m trying to say is I’m trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

We want justice, but at the same time, we gotta love and come together and bring unity, and I feel it’s gonna happen.

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

You gotta understand: I believe a woman should praise the man, the king. If you holding it down for your woman, I feel like the woman should praise. And the man should praise the queen.

If I made a commitment, I stood by that commitment – and try to make it real. Because when you become leaders, the most important thing you have is your word, your trust. That’s where respect comes from.

I am who I am today because of my mother.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

Arthur Miller wouldn’t have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.

He that overvalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

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

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

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.

Know your worth! People always act like they’re doing more for you than you’re doing for them.

You know what, I’m very attracted to someone who makes me laugh and is that charming. Really, I could be charmed by anyone. I’m just a sucker for somebody that is charming.