Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can – that is their secret.

For me, one of the toughest things about Valentine’s Day is that it gets geared up as the day to profess your love. See, T-E-S-T – that’s a bad word that doesn’t go with L-O-V-E.

Never take anything for granted.

I am always wary of decisions made hastily. I am always wary of the first decision, that is, the first thing that comes to my mind if I have to make a decision. This is usually the wrong thing. I have to wait and assess, looking deep into myself, taking the necessary time.

I think I have a certain respect for people, you know. And I guess a lot of times I expect that respect to go both ways.

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

Sometimes I’m fascinated with how famous my work could be while I’m not so famous.

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

I’m pretty sure I don’t have any songs that are about how much I love someone. They’re all either about, like, ‚I hate you,‘ or ‚You make me hate me.‘

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

When it comes to our everyday habits, it’s important to ask: ‚Am I putting God first?‘

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

A lot of times, I run a thought experiment: ‚If I were not at Facebook, what would I be doing to make the world more open?‘

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.

It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.

As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you.

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

I think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that’s going on. I feel like I’m in my own bubble.

Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or ‚our‘ country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.

People don’t usually compliment your character.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

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

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

Self-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It’s a crappy dialogue. We live in a world right now that is very external. Everything is very on the surface. Superficial. Everything. And what we’re telling ourselves is what we see on TV.

It’s human nature to blame someone else for your shortcomings or upsets.

You want to do good things, and once you’ve done a couple of good things in a row, you think ‚Well gee, let’s not mess this up.‘ But I am lucky at this point that I have something I really love to do, and it completely holds my attention. I never feel frustrated by it.

I think that, ah, I’m a very goofy sort of person in many ways.

When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it’s a good indication of what you’re made of.

Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action, which produces further confusion, further misery.

I’ve always loved the fans in Scotland and have a little Scottish blood of my own.

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

I never promise anything. I don’t promise anything to my mum. I don’t promise anything to the supporters.

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.

I think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul… we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

All human evil comes from a single cause, man’s inability to sit still in a room.

Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

I’m giving all that I have in this life. I’m opening up my notebook, and I’m saying everything in there out loud.

I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems.

I always wanted a great love affair: something that feels big and full, really honest, and enough. No moment should feel slight, false, or a little off. For me, it had to be everything.

There’s not a note of mine that’s worth the noting.

I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few.

You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.

Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

What I see, what I went through, what a friend of mine may have went through, whatever – I rap about it.

Occasionally the conflict between ‚what we stand for‘ and ‚what we do‘ has been forthrightly addressed.

I take my kids to school. And if I go to work, I go to work, and they visit me on set. I come home. I have dinner with my family. I have breakfast with my family. I have a very solid, very warm home.

I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine.

I’ve seen my friends take someone back after they’ve cheated because they fit perfectly.