Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I’ve had. And now that I’m in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won’t be half as much anger as there was.

Basically my wife was immature. I’d be at home in the bath and she’d come in and sink my boats.

A faithful woman can become a devoted daughter of God – more concerned with being righteous than with being selfish, more anxious to exercise compassion than to exercise dominion, more committed to integrity than to notoriety. And she knows of her own infinite worth.

Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I’ve never been in love before – I don’t really know? I think I have. I guess it’s subjective in that way.

When you have good friends you’ve been around, every time they talk, you don’t give them your full attention. You don’t look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you’re listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.

I boldly assert, in fact I think I know, that a lot of friendships and connections absolutely depend upon a sort of shared language, or slang. Not necessarily designed to exclude others, this can establish a certain comity and, even after a long absence, re-establish it in a second.

I haven’t had that one great love, which is good. I don’t want that to be in the past – I want it to be in the future.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

I think, a lot of times when you meet someone, you feel like you need to appear like you’re not interested in them so that they’ll be more interested in you. But what happens when you start showing him that you actually like him? What’s he gonna do then? Play the tape forward; how do you keep a guy like that? I don’t want to sign up for that.

What the mind doesn’t understand, it worships or fears.

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

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

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

Any man who doesn’t love his mama can’t be no friend of mine.

I suppose for a very long time I’ve been trying to understand how it is that people might make sense out of their lives and make meaning and make their lives meaningful in the face of the trouble that life brings.

It’s not a slam at you when people are rude, it’s a slam at the people they’ve met before.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

If I held you any closer I would be on the other side of you.

I think that when we know that we actually do live in uncertainty, then we ought to admit it; it is of great value to realize that we do not know the answers to different questions. This attitude of mind – this attitude of uncertainty – is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student must first acquire.

Then, when I’m in these relationships with people who are also creative, or creative in their own way, what happens is the attraction is initially there and it’s all unicorns and rainbows. And then they hate me.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

We should play free football, defend lively with a passion, and have the best understanding in offence.

I’m not denyin‘ the women are foolish. God Almighty made ‚em to match the men.

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Those who have a true understanding of America know that we have no desire for territorial expansion, for economic or other domination of other peoples. Such purposes are repugnant to our ideals of human freedom.

I want to marry Arline because I love her – which means I want to take care of her. That is all there is to it. I want to take care of her. I am anxious for the responsibilities and uncertainties of taking care of the girl I love.

At first when I heard about climate change, I was a climate denier. I didn’t think it was happening. Because if there really was an existential crisis like that, that would threaten our civilisation, we wouldn’t be focusing on anything else. That would be our first priority. So I didn’t understand how that added up.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.

I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure – the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

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

If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

If you wished to be loved, love.

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

I look after people.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

The infinite faith I have in people’s ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

I felt I had to solve everyone’s problems.

Here’s what I’ve learned about deal-breakers. If you have enough natural chemistry with someone, you overlook every single thing that you said would break the deal.

People were saying that David Geffen and I had gotten married and it just blew me away. Not that they thought I was gay, but that they thought I could land a guy that hot.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.

We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.