People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like – that’s a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

I feel like I’m the kind of guy that would have kids before getting married. The first thing would be kids.

Sooner or later we’re all someone’s dog.

I could fall in love with a sumo wrestler if he told stories and made me laugh. Obviously, it would be easier if someone was African-American and lived next door and went to the same church. Because then I wouldn’t have to translate.

My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.

I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

If women were particular about men’s characters, they would never get married at all.

Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?… It is necessary to accompany them with mercy.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Who, being loved, is poor?

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

He didn’t come out of my belly, but my God, I’ve made his bones, because I’ve attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I’m so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

I was gutted to leave my boyfriend at home when I started my tour, but taking my pillow was like taking a little bit of him with me.

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.

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.

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

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

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

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

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

To be loved is very demoralizing.

No matter what, I always make it home for Christmas. I love to go to my Tennessee Mountain Home and invite all of my nieces and nephews and their spouses and kids and do what we all like to do – eat, laugh, trade presents and just enjoy each other… and sometimes I even dress up like Santa Claus!

My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.

I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.

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.

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.

I worked with someone who told me they’d never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I’m trying to say is I’m trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

To me, if you’re trying to impress a girl, get a date, they’re gonna like that more because you’re a confident guy. That’s what it comes down to.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one’s self.

To be able to throw one’s self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman’s smile – that is happiness.

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don’t know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature’s gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

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.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

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

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.