So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

We don’t need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.

My family is very good about visiting me, and other friends as well.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

I don’t hate women – they just sometimes make me mad.

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

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Aim for the highest.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

I ain’t never far away from a pencil and paper or a tape recorder.

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

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

Dear friends, we may well sing to our Beloved when it is near the time of our departure. It draws near, and as it approaches, we must not dread it, but rather thank God for it.

Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn’t come alive until the leader models it.

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

I think God gives every one of us our own will, and unfortunately, some people choose to do evil things with it.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

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

My grandpa was a preacher.

If I’d married someone in show business, there’d be too much competition.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

Women – always in trouble with them, but can’t live without them.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

I don’t think I’ve ever been an agnostic. I’ve always thought there’s a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there’s a world to come.

One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.

I’m a people pleaser. I hold a lot of things in. I’m always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don’t rage; I usually don’t curse.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

I think when people make a record with a goal in mind – like taking it to the next level or making them seem more mature – that gets in the way of writing great songs.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

Since I was old enough to understand what a songwriter/producer is, I’ve had a curiosity about how Max Martin creates what he creates. I wanted to see that happen. I wanted to be there. I wanted to learn from him.

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

Here’s the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don’t find it anywhere else.

I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don’t know.

What the heck is true love? I remember feeling, back when I was 12 and ‚going‘ with this girl, ‚Is this true love?‘

The one badge of Christian discipleship is not orthodoxy but love.

The American public’s a lot more sophisticated than we all give them credit for. And on complicated issues, I’m going to give them straight answers. And if it takes more than three minutes, I’m going to do it.

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.

I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.

Find new ways to spread the word of God to every corner of the world.

It always seems odd to me that the fundamental laws of physics, when discovered, can appear in so many different forms that are not apparently identical at first, but, with a little mathematical fiddling, you can show the relationship.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

You’ve got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you’ve got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.