Sometimes, you might meet somebody that you love that’s turning into a ‚they.‘ My key is invite them to Miami and take them to the ocean and let them jump off the boat in the ocean, on the sand bar, and cleanse off and pray and then go take a shower, and hopefully the ‚they‘ is out of you.

I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

My life is my argument.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

I knew through the surgeries that he was on my side and that this wasn’t something where I was gonna feel less of a woman, because my husband wasn’t gonna let that happen.

At 155, I will be the same animal, an even better animal.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

First, I’m trying to prove to myself that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll convince myself that I’m an actress.

Don’t ever criticize yourself. Don’t go around all day long thinking, ‚I’m unattractive, I’m slow, I’m not as smart as my brother.‘ God wasn’t having a bad day when he made you… If you don’t love yourself in the right way, you can’t love your neighbour. You can’t be as good as you are supposed to be.

For me, ‚risky‘ is revealing what really happened in my life through music. Risky is writing confessional songs and telling the true story about a person with enough details so everyone knows who that person is.

I never thought I’d have children; I never thought I’d be in love, I never thought I’d meet the right person. Having come from a broken home – you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don’t look for them.

There’s a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more.

Make bold choices and make mistakes. It’s all those things that add up to the person you become.

I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about dying, but I like to think that I’ve – if it did occur – that I would die peacefully and not make too much of a fuss about it.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.

I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.

Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

It is better to do one’s own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic – being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

You’ve got to learn to survive a defeat. That’s when you develop character.

If you don’t live your life, then who will?

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

I don’t know how to function without music. When I’m not making it, I’m listening to it. It gives me courage and takes care of my mind.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It’s not true that I’m happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?

Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.

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

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

I think there is a lot made out of age, and what age you feel.

Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.

Ever since I dated a woman, I know what it is to grab a curve on a woman’s body. Skinny’s not fine when the lights are low.

When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

I dote on his very absence.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

I always wanted to be loved.

If in prayer I come before a throne of grace, the faults of my prayer will be overlooked.

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

Stay active. Read the Word. Worship with other believers. Continue to give. Keep learning and growing. Your faith will be unleashed!

Frustration is a sign I am acting independently. The more you try your own way, the tighter the doors will stay closed.

One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gays are some of the nicest, kindest, most loving people in the world.