There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

If you like a person you say ‚let’s go into business together.‘ Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.

I’ve never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I’ve only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.

Ultimately, who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business.

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

Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

Hear reason, or she’ll make you feel her.

It’s hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don’t always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Christmas is the perfect time to celebrate the love of God and family and to create memories that will last forever. Jesus is God’s perfect, indescribable gift. The amazing thing is that not only are we able to receive this gift, but we are able to share it with others on Christmas and every other day of the year.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

Crankiness is at the essence of all comedy. My wife and I were discussing the different types of cranky. There’s entertaining cranky, annoying cranky, angry cranky.

I don’t like cream puff, corny guys. Usually, they are the nice guys, the ones that won’t hurt you. They’ll pull out the chair for you and the whole nine yards. Everything is perfect and boring.

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

I love to play. And fortunately, I don’t know a lot of musicians that suck. I know a bunch of really good ones, and they’re always up for playing.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

No one loves the man whom he fears.

You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred.

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

When I get up and work out, I’m working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It’s just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.

I knew through the surgeries that he was on my side and that this wasn’t something where I was gonna feel less of a woman, because my husband wasn’t gonna let that happen.

My wife and I are very affectionate.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

When you have good friends you’ve been around, every time they talk, you don’t give them your full attention. You don’t look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you’re listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.

I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.

I love the sea.

If a man’s character is to be abused there’s nobody like a relative to do the business.

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

The one badge of Christian discipleship is not orthodoxy but love.

You’re unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.

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

Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

He knows my limitations and where I’m a good wife and a good mom.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.

Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn’t say I lived in a ghetto; I’d say I lived in the ‚hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

I have a family, loving aunts, and a good home. No, on the surface I seem to have everything except my one true friend. All I think about when I’m with friends is having a good time. I can’t bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. We don’t seem to be able to get any closer, and that’s the problem.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

You would think that a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.

The Bible is clear – God’s definition of marriage is between a man and a woman.

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.

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

He who hath many friends hath none.

My mami and papi love my music. They’re always listening to the radio waiting for one of my songs to come on. And when it does, they turn up the volume – and turn it back down when it’s over.

Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.

I was afraid that science-fiction buffs and everybody would say things like, ‚You know, there’s no sound in outer space.‘

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.

I think, a lot of times when you meet someone, you feel like you need to appear like you’re not interested in them so that they’ll be more interested in you. But what happens when you start showing him that you actually like him? What’s he gonna do then? Play the tape forward; how do you keep a guy like that? I don’t want to sign up for that.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

I don’t eat with beautiful women alone.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to us than Elves, or even than Dwarves. Of old they spoke the languages of Men, after their own fashion, and liked and disliked much the same things as Men did. But what exactly our relationship is can no longer be discovered.

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.