Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.

I’m terrified of losing my voice.

My wife has about everything I can think of.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

Right now I’m just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.

Great loves too must be endured.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Making your dad happy is – especially for an Italian Catholic girl, I’ll tell you – it feels really good.

There’s an ecstatic side to writing. It’s like jazz. It just has a life.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we’re going to be miserable. In fact, many times we believe it’s our problems that are making us unhappy when, in reality, it’s because we’re focused on ourselves!

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

I was always interested in choreography – in making people think and feel something.

I love the ending of a movie where two people end up together. Preferably if there’s rain and an airport or running or a confession of love.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of ‚CSI‘ and ‚Grey’s Anatomy‘ episodes with pints of ice cream.

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’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable. As a result, the atmosphere of our home was super-charged with fear because you never knew if what you did would make him mad or not.

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. I know, because for many years my life was not peaceful, and I was miserable.

It doesn’t matter where you come from, what you have or don’t have, what you lack, or what you have too much of. But all you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to.

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

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.

True happiness is… to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

The danger sensation is exciting. The challenge is to find new dangers.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.

Do not rebuke mockers, or they will hate you; rebuke the wise, and they will love you.

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.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.

If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

The way to know life is to love many things.

I am so tired of fear. And I don’t want my girls to live in a country, in a world, based on fear.

Anger is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns: children, women, old folks, sick folks.

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

Happy the people whose annals are vacant.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn’t matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

I’m gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell ‚em out of the trunk of my car. I’m that kind of musician and singer.

I’ve always wanted to make a career in the arts, and I think that my only hope at doing that is to make it more about the work.

Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

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

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

The child inside of you knows how to take things as they come, how to deal most effectively and happily with everything and everyone it encounters on this planet. If you can recapture that childlike essence of your being, you can stay ‚forever young at heart.‘

I want to marry Arline because I love her – which means I want to take care of her. That is all there is to it. I want to take care of her. I am anxious for the responsibilities and uncertainties of taking care of the girl I love.