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

I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies – or else? The chain reaction of evil – hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars – must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it’s almost impossible to stamp out.

It’s hard for anybody who’s been with me not to feel starved for affection when I’m making love to my ideas. Maybe it’s not meant for me to settle down and be married.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

I would never win an award for not loving pizza.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

Without Cambodia, I may never have become a mother. Part of my heart is and will always be in this country. And part of this country is always with me: Maddox.

Maria is the best reason to come home.

I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

The spirit of America has nurtured responsibility and community unlike any other country.

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

Speak low, if you speak love.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

The drawing teacher has this problem of communicating how to draw by osmosis and not by instruction, while the physics teacher has the problem of always teaching techniques, rather than the spirit, of how to go about solving physical problems.

God’s love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

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

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s.

People like to hear the word ‚love.‘

I love hugging people. I still hug everybody in my meet-and-greet lines.

Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it.

Love is a serious mental disease.

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

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

It’s not possible to stop love.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can’t have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I’d rather not be in a cage. I’d rather be dead. And it’s real simple. And I think it’s not that uncommon.

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.

Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

I like a man who grins when he fights.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

Love is the one wild card.

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

I was fortunate and I was lucky that I had a couple of people in my life who cared about me. I had good, loving parents.

Any man who doesn’t love his mama can’t be no friend of mine.

These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I’d be a damn‘ fool if they weren’t.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one’s goal and not in reaching it.

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’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.

Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That’s definitely my first response. I think change is more likely to happen if both partners have common language and a shared lens to see problems.

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

When I get married, it’ll be no secret.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.