The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

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

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

My whole life and my whole career, even through my music, I tell people: let’s unify; let’s show more love.

If you’re talking to a man who wouldn’t fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you’re talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.

Know your worth! People always act like they’re doing more for you than you’re doing for them.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

The real danger is not inaction. The real danger is when politicians and CEOs are making it look like action is happening when in fact nothing is being done.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

I have a very good family. I’m very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It’s one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.

I feel like I’m the kind of guy that would have kids before getting married. The first thing would be kids.

One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what’s really happening to me, even if it’s a tough pill to swallow for people around me… I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

But there is a difference between cozying up to power and being close to power.

To me, if you’re trying to impress a girl, get a date, they’re gonna like that more because you’re a confident guy. That’s what it comes down to.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

I love to play. And fortunately, I don’t know a lot of musicians that suck. I know a bunch of really good ones, and they’re always up for playing.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

The wisest hustler can suddenly fall for the worst tramp and lose all of his money on her. The hustler is aware of his own weaknesses and openings to con. This awareness is his edge.

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

People were saying that David Geffen and I had gotten married and it just blew me away. Not that they thought I was gay, but that they thought I could land a guy that hot.

Man’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

I don’t have to ‚freedom-kiss‘ my wife when what I really want to do is French-kiss her.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

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

One man cannot practice many arts with success.

For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.

When you have good friends you’ve been around, every time they talk, you don’t give them your full attention. You don’t look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you’re listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

If I wouldn’t have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.

Assuming if there’s such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?

I’m happiest with my family around me.

The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes – or just by staring into space.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

I think everyone should be with who they love.

Danger is sauce for prayers.

Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.

Of all nature’s gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.