Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

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.

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

God doesn’t dwell in the wooden, stony or earthen idols. His abode is in our feelings, our thoughts.

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

I just got to feel that whoever I marry has some real regard for me.

I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.

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

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.

Where thou art, that is home.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.

I’m an emotional person.

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

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

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.

I’m really happy and had such an amazing time performing at Super Bowl – wish I could relive it all over again.

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

If we chew every morsel of our food, in that way we become grateful, and when you are grateful, you are happy.

Enjoyment is an incredible energizer to the human spirit.

If you like a person you say ‚let’s go into business together.‘ Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.

As soon as there is life there is danger.

Olympics for me is love, peace, united.

Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.

God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we’re small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.

There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It’s always been my way of expressing what, for me, is inexpressible by any other means.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

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

Love is trembling happiness.

In my own life I know that my state of cheerfulness is a reliable gauge of my level of spiritual enlightenment at that moment. The more cheerful, happy, contented, and satisfied I am feeling, the more aware I am of my deep connection to Spirit.

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.

Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything. If you don’t write stories you love, you’ll never make it. If you don’t write stories that other people love, you’ll never make it.

Every man’s reputation proceeds from those of his own household.

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.

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

I’m tired. I’m tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I’m tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war.

It’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well.

There are always people always asking you for something. But I feel like I have a foundation. I have a supporting cast where it doesn’t bother me too much.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

Love is a serious mental disease.

I’ve never been a boyfriend kind of girl.

I don’t have many sad days.

My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

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.

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God’s Word.

I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.

You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England – you couldn’t have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.