Religious faith, like political belief, should be based on reasoning, on the development of thought and feelings. The two things are inseparable.

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

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

Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don’t know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.

What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you’re advancing. If you don’t you’re as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn’t there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.

Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards – the things we live by and teach our children – are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

The knighthood was a tremendous honour, I don’t dismiss it. But I feel embarrassed by the flowery, theatrical stuff that goes with being an actor.

The heart is forever inexperienced.

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

Wives are people who feel they don’t dance enough.

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings – always darker, emptier and simpler.

I’m a movie maker, but I have the same feelings as the average guy out there.

I’ve been writing poems since I was in the Navy – to Rosalynn. I found I could say things in poems that I never could in prose. Deeper, more personal things. I could write a poem about my mother that I could never tell my mother. Or feelings about being on a submarine that I would have been too embarrassed to share with fellow submariners.

It’s not possible to stop love.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

I have all the emotions that everyone has; it just appears that I don’t.

I kind of love Cole Miller.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

It’s just human nature to try and figure things out. So, when we’re in the midst of a situation, we usually try to reason our way through it.

Why there is one body in our System qualified to give light and heat to all the rest, I know no reason but because the Author of the System thought it convenient; and why there is but one body of this kind, I know no reason, but because one was sufficient to warm and enlighten all the rest.

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.

Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn’t get some of that stuff out.

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

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

Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you’re heartbroken, but tomorrow you’ll be in love again.

All knowledge or form conception is evoked through the medium of the eye, either in response to disturbances directly received on the retina or to their fainter secondary effects and reverberations. Other sense organs can only call forth feelings which have no reality of existence and of which no conception can be formed.

I don’t have this feeling that 70 is really old.

On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I’m always going to feel everything. It’s my nature.

You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood.

Man is the only animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him.

My role in society, or any artist’s or poet’s role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

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

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

I’ve often felt depressed; everyone feels depressed.

I’ve got a crush on my backing singer.

I’m an emotional person.

Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

With music, you often don’t have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don’t know why.

Love is an interesting thing.

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.

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

When we’re falling in love or out of it, that’s when we most need a song that says how we feel. Yeah, I write a lot of songs about boys. And I’m very happy to do that.

I get a little bit emotional during a game!

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?

If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.

I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

A relationship can give you a gut wrenching feeling sometimes. It’s a real emotional ride.

Oh, I’ve always been very… Emotional. ‚Hypersensitive‘ is what they call it, I think.

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings – words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.