Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

A family shares hardships and a connected history.

If I’m gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That’s how it works.

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it’s to have any meaning in this world – and stop being its apologist.

I rely on other people every day of my life.

I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.

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

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that’s when I think life is over.

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

I put out one album one week, and I’m already worried about the next one. I feel a lot of emotion throughout the course of a day. But not to the point where you need to be worried about me.

There are so many emotions that you’re feeling, you can get stifled by them if you’re feeling them all at once. What I try to do is take one moment – one simple, simple feeling – and expand it into three-and-a-half minutes.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.

I went through every emotion with tryna pursue what I’m doing, you know what I mean? And I think what’s gon‘ separate whoever’s gon go for something, that you ain’t gon‘ quit.

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

To a guy like me, a laugh is full of information.

Chinese people themselves, they really want change.

I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don’t know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.

A lot of churches have not moved with the times.

There are no rules when it comes to love.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers – but never blame yourself. It’s never your fault. But it’s always your fault, because if you wanted to change you’re the one who has got to change.

It always seems odd to me that the fundamental laws of physics, when discovered, can appear in so many different forms that are not apparently identical at first, but, with a little mathematical fiddling, you can show the relationship.

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it – and sometimes three.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

You know what, I’m very attracted to someone who makes me laugh and is that charming. Really, I could be charmed by anyone. I’m just a sucker for somebody that is charming.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

Nothing endures but change.

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

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.

Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

People have so much going on in their heads. I’m like, If you could write a song, you’d feel so much better!

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

Many things shall change in Cuba, but they shall change because of our efforts and despite the United States. Perhaps that empire shall crumble first.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

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

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

I’m not ashamed to say I fear something.

Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one’s life.

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

I don’t believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

It is better to be deceived by one’s friends than to deceive them.

I have an urge to communicate. I think I’m a change from what it would be like dating a normal guy who doesn’t talk too much.

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

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

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

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

For me, often, there’s such a cloud of melancholia about knowing I’m going to have to leave my daughter on her own. I don’t know what age that is going to be, thank God. It just doubles me up in grief.

It’s okay to eat fish because they don’t have any feelings.

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

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.