The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they’re not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don’t care about money, and that’s not my problem.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

We moralize among ruins.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

In God’s family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.

It’s important to love in hip hop.

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.

I have an urge to communicate. I think I’m a change from what it would be like dating a normal guy who doesn’t talk too much.

They do not love that do not show their love.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.

If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.

Love is easy, and I love writing. You can’t resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you’re in love.

For me, it’s about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It’s where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that’s very important to me.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

Country radio is much more like a family than any other group of people that I’ve met.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.

There are always people always asking you for something. But I feel like I have a foundation. I have a supporting cast where it doesn’t bother me too much.

Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.

I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

My wife and I are very affectionate.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

WWE is a space where I thrived, and I loved, and I still do. I love connecting with an audience; that is the greatest thing about going back to WWE.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

We are not the sum of our possessions.

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

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

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

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

Like every parent, when you start your family, your life completely changes. And you completely live for someone else. I find that the most extraordinary thing. Your life is handed over to someone else. From that moment on, they come first in every choice you make. It’s the most wonderful thing.

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

A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.

Honor thy error as a hidden intention.

We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother – but… when she became our child, the affection came.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.