There is no remedy for love but to love more.

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

William Maxwell’s my favorite North American writer, I think. And an Irish writer who used to write for ‚The New Yorker‘ called Maeve Brennan, and Mary Lavin, another Irish writer. There were a lot of writers that I found in ‚The New Yorker‘ in the Fifties who wrote about the same type of material I did – about emotions and places.

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

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.

I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.

When people get married young, you don’t really understand the true definition of marriage.

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it’s time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.

When you find a guy who is powerful, a big father figure, you latch onto him immediately.

Eating is so intimate. It’s very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you’re inviting a person into your life.

To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn’t be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.

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

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad.

When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn’t eat or sleep.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

Well, all comedy starts with anger. You get angry, and its never for a good reason, right? You know its not a good reason. And then you try and work it from there.

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

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

I’m not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.

He that has not got a wife is not yet a complete man.

There’s nothing hippie about my picture of Christ. The Gospels paint a picture of a very demanding, sometimes divisive love, but love it is.

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

I spend a lot of time just, you know, with my girlfriend and my dog. And I mean, we don’t have a lot of furniture in our house, so it’s really simple. And we’re trying to build products for everyone in the world, right. And you don’t want to get isolated to do that.

If I think too hard about a relationship, I’ll talk myself out of it.

Lovers often invest their first meetings with retrospective significance, as if to try to conjure the elements of the numinous out of the stubborn witness of the everyday.

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

Every single one of the guys that I’ve written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.

Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.

I get a little bit emotional during a game!

People like music when they’re in love, but they don’t need it as much. You need music when you’re missing someone or you’re pining for someone or you’re forgetting someone or you’re trying to process what just happened.

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.

I think I have had so much blessing – I’ve had my brother, who was brilliant – I think my family came closest to making a genius when they made my brother – Bailey was just all of that. He loved me.

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.

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

It’s okay to eat fish because they don’t have any feelings.

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness.

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Marriage is the death of hope.

My father wasn’t a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher – one of those Victorians, hard as iron – but my dad was tough enough.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

Familiarity breeds contempt – and children.

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.

Men who think that a woman’s past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.