Speak low, if you speak love.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don’t know if it’s possible forever and ever.

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.

My audience went, ‚Wait, why is she singing jazz? What’s going on?‘ And then they went, ‚Oh, because she can. Because she loves it.‘ And jazz, a music invented by the African-American community, is the greatest art form, I believe, to have ever come out of this country.

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.

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

When I was married, I definitely went through a lying period.

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.

A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend’s griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother’s happiness.

I have more friends in New York than Paris.

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It’s a lesson I’ve had to relearn quite a few times.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

No one loves the man whom he fears.

When you’re traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonically, lyrically, visually. Conversations with women with different accents and stories told in those accents. I like to create characters based on different people I’ve met, and relationships. I like to tell stories loosely based on real-life events.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

It’s a rather rude gesture, but at least it’s clear what you mean.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

I’ve never been a boyfriend kind of girl.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

I’m not claiming divinity. I’ve never claimed purity of soul. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can… But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

I’ve found that men I’ve dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I’ve found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren’t competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been… challenging.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.

I think humans are just hard-wired to process people’s faces and understand meaning and expression at such a more granular level than other types of communication.

You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred.

There is no such thing as a lovers‘ oath.

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

If you want to get each individual’s honest opinion, you don’t want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less allow a group to coordinate what they are going to say.

I love performing, you know, because, like I say, I’m a ham for this stuff.

Counsel with your parents is a privilege at any age.

The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

Before I look stupid and not know what a word means or how to pronounce it, I’ll stop the whole production: ‚Hey, real quick, guys. Define this word for me. Somebody.‘

You see, at the end of the day, my most important title is still ‚mom-in-chief.‘ My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world.

I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it’s absolutely true.

The public doesn’t mind people living together without being married, providing they don’t overdo it.

Stage actors are usually much more conscious of speaking up and making sure that everyone can hear in the back of the theatre; a film actor probably thinks of that a little less.

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

I do think that we’re gonna move towards this world where eventually you’ll be able to capture a whole experience that you’re in and be able to send that to someone.

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

My mom and I have always been there for each other. We had some tough times, but she was always there for me.

I’d love to date somebody cool, fun, funny.

I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly.

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you.