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

We want justice, but at the same time, we gotta love and come together and bring unity, and I feel it’s gonna happen.

Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness and moderation is certain and durable.

I’ve been a lot more into Facebook and Twitter and Instagram, which was a bit complicated for me to understand the language of each social media, because they all talk in different ways. It’s a nice way for me to tell people I appreciate them, which I forget to do sometimes.

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

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.

No matter what, I always make it home for Christmas. I love to go to my Tennessee Mountain Home and invite all of my nieces and nephews and their spouses and kids and do what we all like to do – eat, laugh, trade presents and just enjoy each other… and sometimes I even dress up like Santa Claus!

At the start of the season, there are 16 teams in the top division looking behind them, making sure they avoid relegation. The fear starts in the boardroom, comes down to managers and through to players. The fans sense it.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

I read a lot. I enjoy reading a lot.

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

The first book I ever really read was Plato’s ‚Republic,‘ and then I had to go over that five times or something.

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.

Nixon represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character almost every other country in the world has learned to fear and despise.

I think the perfection of love is that it’s not perfect.

I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I’ll be OK. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me.

I want to thank my Eritrean fans for feeling connected to me and for supporting me. I feel extremely grateful.

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

I wasn’t trying to be an outlaw writer. I never heard of that term; somebody else made it up. But we were all outside the law: Kerouac, Miller, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Kesey; I didn’t have a gauge as to who was the worst outlaw. I just recognized allies: my people.

Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish.

As I’ve said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis‘ future.

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

I believe when it comes to love, there’s something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don’t think I have a pattern.

I read a lot when I’m travelling and always have a couple of books on the go.

I never fall in love.

If music be the food of love, play on.

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.

What I’ve discovered is that in art, as in music, there’s a lot of truth-and then there’s a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It’s the moment that the audience falls in love.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

Fear is a spirit that produces a feeling.

I just got to feel that whoever I marry has some real regard for me.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

I was very worried about my mother, growing up – a lot. I do not want my children to be worried about me.

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

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

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.

Jesus is a divine guest inside of you all the time – one who loves, understands, sees and hears you. He wants to live in oneness with you… to be the centerpiece of everything you do.

I don’t know if I officially proofread my father’s book, but I read it. I did get some conception of grammar in general from that.

I am a very emotional guy. What I love, I do with all I have.

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

I got interested in reading very early, because a story was read to me, by Hans Christian Andersen, which was ‚The Little Mermaid,‘ and I don’t know if you remember ‚The Little Mermaid,‘ but it’s dreadfully sad. The little mermaid falls in love with this prince, but she cannot marry him because she is a mermaid.

The ‚public‘ scares me, but people I trust.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

I wanted to write a book that talked about the emotions of children, which is the rainbow. We all have moods. We talk about being blue when we’re sad, and being yellow when we’re cowards, and when we’re mad, we’re red.

Being acknowledged for your work is always a great accomplishment, whether it’s people in my city, kids in the street, all the way up to the Grammys.