One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Obviously, you go through a lot of emotional turmoil in a divorce.

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.

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.

If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it.

I’ll tell you one thing, since I’m married, single people look absolutely ridiculous to me.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

When I say I’m going to take care of a woman, I don’t just mean physically or sexually or romantically. I’m going to take care of her emotionally and spiritually. I’m going to take care of her in all ways. I take a lot of pride in that today.

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.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

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

I don’t know what’s better gettin‘ laid or gettin‘ paid.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

Absolutely not. I have no problem with commitment. In fact, I love having someone in my life.

Men exist for the sake of one another.

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

I love life because what more is there?

My wife and I are very affectionate.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

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

It’s annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren’t they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.

Love is the most powerful thing in the world, and you know, what love brings is joy.

No, we don’t own our children. Our parental privilege is to love them, to lead them, and to let them go.

It’s true that I’ve never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet’s heart when caught and tangled in a woman’s body?

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone – a memory.

Love always ends differently and it always begins differently – especially with me.

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it’s been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can’t stop thinking about.

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

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.

Eating is so intimate. It’s very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you’re inviting a person into your life.

Arthur Miller wouldn’t have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.

Women may fall when there’s no strength in men.

I have no hostility to nature, but a child’s love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

My dad was never married. He was kind of a rolling stone. But he was never disrespectful. At the same time, even though he had women in his life when I was a kid, there wasn’t any consistency.

When you’re traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonically, lyrically, visually. Conversations with women with different accents and stories told in those accents. I like to create characters based on different people I’ve met, and relationships. I like to tell stories loosely based on real-life events.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

I’ve known and continue to know every one of these major world leaders by their first names, and I have access to them.

All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I’d worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: ‚Don’t hide these things from me. I’d rather you ask me these things straight out, and I’ll answer all your questions.‘

It used to be the case, like you’d switch jobs, and then maybe you wouldn’t keep in touch with all the people that you knew from that old job, just because it was too hard. But one of the things that Facebook does is it makes it really easy to just stay in touch with all these people.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

I don’t eat with beautiful women alone.

You see, you are a spirit, you have a soul, and you live in a body. You have emotions, you have thoughts, you have a will, and you have a conscience. You are a complex being! And Jesus came to heal every single part of you. There’s not one part that He doesn’t want to make completely whole.

The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.

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.

Since I was 16, I’ve felt a black cloud hangs over me.

Ever since I first came here in 1963 to fight Henry Cooper, I have loved the people of England.

The uncertainty of parenting can bring up feelings in us that range from frustration to terror.

It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.

I’m working at trying to be a Christian, and that’s serious business. It’s like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy – it’s serious business.

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

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don’t know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.