O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.

I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all.

If somebody thinks they’re a hedgehog, presumably you just give ‚em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.

I let people fill in the blanks on their own. If they want to think about their ex, that’s fine. If they want to think about maybe who one of my exes is, then that’s fine. And it might not be right, because I’m the only one who knows what these songs are really about. It’s the one shred of privacy I have in the matter.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

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

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

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.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.

Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.

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

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

When we’re falling in love or out of it, that’s when we most need a song that says how we feel. Yeah, I write a lot of songs about boys. And I’m very happy to do that.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

There’s a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It’s deceptive because when you have pride, you’re usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn’t sell well.

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

I’ve done a lot of things I’m not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that.

Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn’t come from a store.

There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.

If I’m not in love, if I’m not with a long-term companion, I cannot be happy.

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

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

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

I’m all about peace. I’m all about unity. I’m all about love.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.

Like as the waves make towards the pebbl’d shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.

I love stuff from the Holy Land. It makes me feel blessed.

The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.

Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!

I love life because what more is there?

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

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.

Every man’s memory is his private literature.

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

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

I kind of love Cole Miller.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

I’m pretty sure I don’t have any songs that are about how much I love someone. They’re all either about, like, ‚I hate you,‘ or ‚You make me hate me.‘

Life is a dead-end street.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?

Our love, our gratitude, our admiration for our men and women in uniform, our veterans and their families – all of that is bigger than any one party or any one election.

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love – first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don’t know why he’s with me. I don’t know whether I’m good enough. But if I make him happy, then I’m everything I want to be.

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

I love Manchester. Everyone knows that – I have said it many times. Manchester is in my heart.