Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

I don’t like cream puff, corny guys. Usually, they are the nice guys, the ones that won’t hurt you. They’ll pull out the chair for you and the whole nine yards. Everything is perfect and boring.

Great loves too must be endured.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

People always say when they meet me that I’m not what they expect. I assume they think I’m this super dark and depressing guy, but I like to channel all of those emotions into my work.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.

If you cry over a guy, then your friends can’t date him. It can’t even be considered.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or ‚our‘ country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

When I tell a child something the first time, I’m nice. The 15th time, I start to get aggravated.

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you’re prepared for it.

I’ve found that men I’ve dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I’ve found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren’t competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been… challenging.

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

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

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

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

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

I think I have had so much blessing – I’ve had my brother, who was brilliant – I think my family came closest to making a genius when they made my brother – Bailey was just all of that. He loved me.

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.

A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend – and he’s a priest.

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.

It’s an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important… and to feel that you’re being published by people who really don’t get it and/or don’t really care.

All emotion is involuntary when genuine.

One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what’s really happening to me, even if it’s a tough pill to swallow for people around me… I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

If I wouldn’t have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

I’m sick of the tabloids‘ saying I obsess over guys. Why would you obsess over guys? They don’t like it.

We’re not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.

Speak low, if you speak love.

I was adored once too.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.

I’ve had moments when I’ve thought about somebody, picked up the phone to call them and they are on the line already, and I think that maybe there’s some vibration, some connection.

I have this feeling that the world is not in balance. And people are afraid, but we’re also starting to be really brave.

I have good days and bad days.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something’s wrong. He’s not right in the brain.

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

It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend’s folly.

I’m an emotional person. Sometimes I can’t help it.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

I don’t think it’s possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.

One of the most terrible feelings in the world is knowing that someone else doesn’t like you. Especially when you don’t know what you’ve done to deserve it.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.