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

The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.

A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: ‚Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?‘ We must always consider the person.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

The reason children accept discipline from their parents is because they know their parents love them.

I love sleep; it’s my favorite.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

No one loves the man whom he fears.

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

It has been hard for me to find it, but I have found love.

I make friends faster and easier than journalists.

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one’s self.

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

A man makes you feel important – makes you glad you are a woman.

There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls, but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd. Of course, I expect this, but the knife still cuts.

The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

If I held you any closer I would be on the other side of you.

Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Though lovers be lost, love shall not.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

I think when you see an aircraft fire, these angry, black puffs of smoke, knowing that one of them could kill you that you – you – you understand the seriousness of the mission. And you understand your own mortality.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Friends are thieves of time.

Oh, my mama was awesome. Very strict, overreligious, loved the Lord, loved rules. But she had to be that way because of where we were growing up, the neighborhood I was from.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

For me, one of the toughest things about Valentine’s Day is that it gets geared up as the day to profess your love. See, T-E-S-T – that’s a bad word that doesn’t go with L-O-V-E.

‚Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

No sane man will dance.

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

Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

She’s been married so many times she has rice marks on her face.

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.

We can’t form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

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.

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o‘ the flatterer.

If you cry over a guy, then your friends can’t date him. It can’t even be considered.

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it’s with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.

Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

God to me is love.