People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

Anything I’ve ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.

I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.

I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

People have been fed this diet of pabulum, rights, and impulsive freedom. There’s just an absolute starvation for the other side of the story.

It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us – dreamers and indolent… It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich – these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.

You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don’t accept it, it’s their loss.

I actually feel like women in my position, when we have all at our disposal to help us, shouldn’t complain when we consider all of the people who are really struggling and don’t have the means or support. Many people are single, raising children. That’s hard.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

I always keep my guard up with guys and I guess that can get in the way sometimes. I can make them go through hell.

You are the universe, you aren’t in the universe.

I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it’s almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

Football is a sad game.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

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

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

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

I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we’ll fail, and sometimes we’ll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you’ll find support.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

Basketball is booming, and it’s not just an Under Armour standpoint: it’s about the game itself. Kids going out and playing and being inspired by what we do on the court.

It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.

Read about history, and you become aware that nothing starts with us.

A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether there is any love for the church in the hearts of those who pay so much attention to the scandals.

I think any man who lets a woman pick what he should wear… I mean, you gotta draw the line somewhere as a man. I see these guys, ‚My wife told me to wear this!‘ And I just shake my head.

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

A pessimist? That’s a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

In the flush of love’s light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.

Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.

A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.

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.

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It’s just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.

I don’t blame the average seventeen-year-old punk-rock kid for calling me a sellout. I understand that. And maybe when they grow up a little bit, they’ll realize there’s more things to life than living out your rock & roll identity so righteously.

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

I love to play. And fortunately, I don’t know a lot of musicians that suck. I know a bunch of really good ones, and they’re always up for playing.

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

So many people are looking at what’s wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what’s right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

When you are young, you cannot imagine being disabled. You imagine you would conquer it somehow. As I’ve got older, I can imagine it; I can see how life narrows in. I feel compassion for my mother now.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies – or else? The chain reaction of evil – hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars – must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.