Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

If you wished to be loved, love.

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish.

I’ve found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

I’m not ashamed to say I fear something.

I’m so nervous. I’ve always been nervous, ever since I was a kid.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background, and I think the greatest thing to do is to pray that God will give you love for them, and I do.

My mother taught children to love to dance.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

I love the ending of a movie where two people end up together. Preferably if there’s rain and an airport or running or a confession of love.

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world… Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

I’m the type person, my safe place to be emotional is the booth.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

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

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn’t get some of that stuff out.

As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me.

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.

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

You can write a song about being in love with someone, but you don’t have to be in love with anyone.

My love is a hummingbird sitting that quiet moment on the bough, as the same cat crouches.

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

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

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

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

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

As a father and now a grandfather to three wonderful grandchildren, I know how magical the first year of a child’s life is but also how much hard work it takes. Being able to spend as much time as possible with your loved ones is absolutely vital, especially early on.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

Man is the only animal that blushes – or needs to.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

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

I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire.

We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

All mankind love a lover.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

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

We all get weary sometimes, and we tend to think that life is what makes us weary.

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.

Many people tell me that they don ‚t know what to feel when they finish one of my books because the story was dark, or complicated, or strange. But while they were reading it, they were inside my world and they were happy. That’s good.

Fear is exciting for me.

I think love is one of the purest things you can sing about. One of the best things you can sing about.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

‚Mean‘ is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt like I was being hit in the face every time this person would take to their computer.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

We do not judge the people we love.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.