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

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

Farewell, fair cruelty.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

We’re so immaturely cynical as a culture. We’re not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they’re stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another.

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.

It’s true that I’ve never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

Mostly, my flying has been solo, but the preparation for it wasn’t. Without my husband’s help and encouragement, I could not have attempted what I have. Ours has been a contented and reasonable partnership, he with his solo jobs and I with mine. But always with work and play together, conducted under a satisfactory system of dual control.

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

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘

No rapper in the world from Jay-Z to Tupac to Biggie has 100 percent love on everything they do.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.

We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.

I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I’m not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.

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

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.

I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don’t just want to possess it, it will find you.

Do not rebuke mockers, or they will hate you; rebuke the wise, and they will love you.

If you get something right, you really feel it, right in your chest, on stage. I think it’s an incomparable experience.

A man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I’m afraid, have a tendency to hide our feelings.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

You have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize.

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.

My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

A youth, when at home, should be filial and, abroad, respectful to his elders. He should be earnest and truthful. He should overflow in love to all and cultivate the friendship of the good. When he has time and opportunity, after the performance of these things, he should employ them in polite studies.

Love to everybody who is out there progressing and taking things to the next level.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Children make your life important.

No one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert by yourself, but you are related. You cannot escape from that absolute fact. You cannot exist in isolation.

I’ve found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

I take my kids to school. And if I go to work, I go to work, and they visit me on set. I come home. I have dinner with my family. I have breakfast with my family. I have a very solid, very warm home.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one’s designs to one’s means.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

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.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

I’ve done a lot of things I’m not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that.

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

Love and desire are the spirit’s wings to great deeds.

So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.

I’m sick of the tabloids‘ saying I obsess over guys. Why would you obsess over guys? They don’t like it.

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

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.