People are underestimating the force of angry kids.

The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.

Hatred is settled anger.

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

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

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. So I distance myself, because I feel everything.

Freedom is a man’s natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

Standing in support of children is something we should all be able to get behind, regardless of party affiliation.

Occasionally I’ve seen children become heavy-handed and insensitive when dealing with their aging parents, and it only caused resentment and hard feelings.

Most of us believe, or should believe, that every child can learn, given the opportunity, but try substitute teaching just once and you will see firsthand the socioeconomic issues that distract our kids from taking advantage of that opportunity.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

‚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.

In one day, I have times where I’m feeling great, I feel like I love my life, and then 2:30 rolls around and I’m the angriest man alive. My wife sees it.

Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer. You’re gay, you’re sick, you’re nervous or whatever.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds, they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material.

The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they’re gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you’re going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

I listen to music that is of our time and I just get angry.

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

Kids are watching us. I experience it every single day. They hang on my every word, what I wear, what I say.

There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.

Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.

When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts.

Be nice to your children. After all, they are going to choose your nursing home.

I’m asking myself, ‚What do my girls, what do all our children deserve in their president? What kind of a president do we want for them?‘ Well, to start with, I think we want someone who is a unifying force in this country: someone who sees our differences not as a threat, but as a blessing.

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

I’ve often felt depressed; everyone feels depressed.

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

Whatever I’m feeling, whatever I’m going through, whatever mood I’m in… If I’m feeling like dancing or clubbing, then it will be reflected in the music. If I’m feeling dark and vulnerable, then it will reflect in the music, too.

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

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

In the world of money and investing, you must learn to control your emotions.

I think about the milestones from my childhood and what it will be like to watch our kids go through them. Taking Riley to her first day of school was a whirlwind. I can’t imagine what middle school is going to be like, and high school, and graduation.

Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it’s with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.

People react to fear, not love; they don’t teach that in Sunday School, but it’s true.

I consider the fact that thousands of children die each day from starvation and a lack of medicine a crisis for humanity and a problem we must collectively attempt to solve.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness.

Part of me feels you can’t say you were truly in love if it didn’t last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that’s when I’ll know it’s real – because it lasted.

Actually, I didn’t start sweating until I had children.

Even when a person has all of life’s comforts – good food, good shelter, a companion – he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.

When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.

I go to sleep thinking about my kids being spoiled and I wake up thinking about it.

A man’s true character comes out when he’s drunk.

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.

In every parting there is an image of death.

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.