There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?

The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.

When I think of the love I feel for each member of our family, I sense, to a slight degree, the love that our Heavenly Father bears for His children.

He didn’t come out of my belly, but my God, I’ve made his bones, because I’ve attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I’m so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.

But, you know, it’s still a drag to get your picture taken when you’re eating a sandwich. It’s a downer.

There’s an ecstatic side to writing. It’s like jazz. It just has a life.

Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

Like every parent, when you start your family, your life completely changes. And you completely live for someone else. I find that the most extraordinary thing. Your life is handed over to someone else. From that moment on, they come first in every choice you make. It’s the most wonderful thing.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.

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.

If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there’s only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

I can get where some scientists would say comedians are crazy. What you have to understand: A lot of comedians are dealing with a dark passion. A lot of these are guys coming from a tumultuous life, including myself. Some people need outlets, a way to express yourself.

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone’s wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

I love to flirt, and I’ve never met a man I didn’t like.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

My mother was a full-time mother. She didn’t have much of her own career, her own life, her own experiences… everything was for her children. I will never be as good a mother as she was. She was just grace incarnate. She was the most generous, loving – she’s better than me.

The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

We don’t make music – it makes us.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

I’m pretty sure I don’t have any songs that are about how much I love someone. They’re all either about, like, ‚I hate you,‘ or ‚You make me hate me.‘

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Everyone has been in love, at some point or another.

I love making music. That’s what I love to do. So I don’t feel like there’s any need to take a break unless I want to.

Sometimes, you might meet somebody that you love that’s turning into a ‚they.‘ My key is invite them to Miami and take them to the ocean and let them jump off the boat in the ocean, on the sand bar, and cleanse off and pray and then go take a shower, and hopefully the ‚they‘ is out of you.

I could fall in love with a sumo wrestler if he told stories and made me laugh. Obviously, it would be easier if someone was African-American and lived next door and went to the same church. Because then I wouldn’t have to translate.

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.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.

When I worked on a magazine, I learned that there are many, many writers writing that can’t write at all; and they keep on writing all the cliches and bromides and 1890 plots, and poems about Spring and poems about Love, and poems they think are modern because they are done in slang or staccato style, or written with all the ‚i’s‘ small.

A true man hates no one.

I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.

It all went wrong with football, the thing I loved most of all, and from there, my life slowly fell apart.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you’ll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

There’s nothing better than having a baby. I’ve always loved children. I used to work summers at the YMCA and be in charge of, like, 30 preschool kids. I knew that when I had a child, I’d be overwhelmed, and it’s true… I can’t tell you how much my attitude has changed since we’ve got Frances. Holding my baby is the best drug in the world.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

I eat steak primarily. That’s pretty much what my diet consists of. Sometimes I supplement that with other steaks.

I love the sea.

I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

To every soul that knows how to pray, to every soul that by faith comes to Jesus, the true mercy seat, divine sovereignty wears no dark and terrible aspect but is full of love.

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin‘ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

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

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

I didn’t have nothin‘ going for me… school, home… until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night’s date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn’t think of looking at another woman.