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.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. Christ teaches that God is love.

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.

I wish I knew why I am so anguished.

Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can’t make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands.

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don’t go right.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone – a memory.

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

My mother taught children to love to dance.

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer.

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

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 know I’m talented, but I wasn’t put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but it’s not where it begins and ends.

We all gonna die eventually from something or other, but don’t be a wimp. Put up a good fight.

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

A consistent anarchist must oppose private ownership of the means of production, and the wage-slavery which is a component of this system, as incompatible with the principle that labor must be freely undertaken and under the control of the producer.

Rocks and waters, etc., are words of God, and so are men. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love.

Not necessity, not desire – no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything – health, food, a place to live, entertainment – they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.

Yes, it is one of my ultimate aims – it is the ultimate sense of football: to make the people happy, to let them live some emotions that you usually can’t get.

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.

Art is to be free. Design is to fix.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

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.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.

I never woke up and thought, ‚I really want to live a bold life.‘

Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.

I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

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.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

I’m such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.

Acting is happy agony.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving – by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

Love is a state of being.

Fear is real, but so is love.

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?