No one loves the man whom he fears.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

I’ve missed out on a lot of things, going out with friends.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

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.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

I’m the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that’s horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it.

You’re unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.

Everyone knows nowadays that people ‚have complexes‘. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I’m upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.

It’s fun to be hopelessly in love. It’s dangerous, but it’s fun.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I’d be a damn‘ fool if they weren’t.

I think women want freedom. They want to be empowered. They want hope. They want love; they want all the things that I want, and I’m not afraid to say those things and act on them, and I think that’s why they identify with me.

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

Who, being loved, is poor?

You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood.

No matter how beautiful a woman might be, you’re always threatened by certain… You’re always threatened by other women, period.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

I’m afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same.

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

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

I don’t know, I feel desperate when I sing. And I look desperate – it feels like I’m singing for my life, which makes me twitch, if that makes sense.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

For me to talk with Obama and the conversation I had with him, I was letting him know that me and my fans have a special connection, and it’s love, and I believe that love is the answer.

Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.

My friends are my estate.

Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can’t vent any anger against them; I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence.

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

I’m an emotional person.

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.

I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone’s inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.

Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy’s ranks.

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

President Assad, I worked with. I know him reasonably well, met with him a few times, and he’s a liar.

We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

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

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

I was gutted to leave my boyfriend at home when I started my tour, but taking my pillow was like taking a little bit of him with me.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.

My father wasn’t a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher – one of those Victorians, hard as iron – but my dad was tough enough.

There’s no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively – I am one with the people.

Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.