Men who think that a woman’s past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.

When I say I’m going to take care of a woman, I don’t just mean physically or sexually or romantically. I’m going to take care of her emotionally and spiritually. I’m going to take care of her in all ways. I take a lot of pride in that today.

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

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet’s heart when caught and tangled in a woman’s body?

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

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

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, ‚I love you.‘

Be nice to your children. After all, they are going to choose your nursing home.

I’ve always had a problem with the average macho man – they’ve always been a threat to me.

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they’re not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don’t care about money, and that’s not my problem.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.

You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.

Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since, when death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God.

Children make your life important.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

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.

Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

Love to everybody who is out there progressing and taking things to the next level.

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

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

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

What I’ve discovered is that in art, as in music, there’s a lot of truth-and then there’s a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It’s the moment that the audience falls in love.

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it’s with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

There is no love of life without despair of life.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can’t ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment’s notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow – that’s vulnerability.

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

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

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

I make friends faster and easier than journalists.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

Jesus never mistreated anyone just because they mistreated Him. He confronted them in a spirit of gentleness and then continued to love them.

What the heck is true love? I remember feeling, back when I was 12 and ‚going‘ with this girl, ‚Is this true love?‘

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

My wife and I are very affectionate.

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

My whole life and my whole career, even through my music, I tell people: let’s unify; let’s show more love.

Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It’s the magic sauce.

The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.

House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad.

The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you’re making a mistake but let you go on with it, that’s when it ruins your mind state as an artist.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

You pay a certain penalty for going your own way. A lot of people think you’re nuts, and you’re not as popular with girls as you should be.

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.