Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

It’s with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

The value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated, no question. But I want to be clear: I’m not trying to be anyone’s savior. I’m just trying to think about the future and not be sad.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

My heroes don’t have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don’t know how, so they talk to themselves.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I’m really not worth being called an artist at all.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

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

It’s a funny thing that when a man hasn’t anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

I don’t hate women – they just sometimes make me mad.

Having a child, that’s always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

I’ve had moments when I’ve thought about somebody, picked up the phone to call them and they are on the line already, and I think that maybe there’s some vibration, some connection.

Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I’ve never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.

I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.

I’ve found that men I’ve dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I’ve found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren’t competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been… challenging.

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

I wish I knew why I am so anguished.

Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

Our love, our gratitude, our admiration for our men and women in uniform, our veterans and their families – all of that is bigger than any one party or any one election.

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

Honestly, I’ve been thinking lately about how boring I am. When I do get time to myself, I watch TV.

I love my daddy. My daddy’s everything. I hope I can find a man that will treat me as good as my dad.

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

Smiles are the language of love.

Some people can just let things go, but I can’t, especially if there’s something that worries me or makes me sad.

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

What nourishes me also destroys me.

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

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

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all.

I would love to sign on to do a movie if it was the right role and if it was the right script, because I would be taking time away from music to tell a big grand story, and spend all of my time and pouring all of my emotions into being someone else. So for me to do that, it would have to be a story worth telling.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

There are two kinds of people in this world. ‚I‘ people and ‚we‘ people. I’ve always tried to be a ‚we‘ person.

If someone is right for you, you’ll know it.

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

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

The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes – or just by staring into space.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put – without delay, and with tenderness – back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

It’s so much easier to like people, and to let people in, to trust them until they prove that you should do otherwise. The alternative is being an iceberg.

Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.

When we make progress quickly, it feeds our emotions. Then, when there’s a period of waiting or we hit a plateau, we find out how committed we really are and whether we’re going to see things through to the finish or quit.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.