We all die, we all get sick, we all feel hunger and lust and pain, and therefore human life is consistent from one generation to the other. We all – most of us, anyway – want connections with other people and spend our lives looking for them.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

I didn’t have a father figure in the house.

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, ‚Did you sleep good?‘ I said ‚No, I made a few mistakes.‘

I don’t have time to be lonely. And I get fearful of relationships because I feel guilty about wanting someone to be completely faithful and loyal, when I can’t even give them 10 percent of the attention that they need. It’s just the reality of my time, my life, my schedule.

The only length of life that seems to satisfy the longings of the human heart is life everlasting.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.

I don’t know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens.

Love is only one of many passions.

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.

If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you – until you get your revenge.

People react to fear, not love; they don’t teach that in Sunday School, but it’s true.

All you need is love.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

Akron, Ohio, is my home. It will always be remembered. Akron, Ohio, is my life.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

I’ve been careful in love. I’ve been careless in love. And I’ve had adventures I wouldn’t trade for anything.

The American people have not become heartless.

I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems.

We think that life develops spontaneously on Earth, so it must be possible for life to develop on suitable planets elsewhere in the universe. But we don’t know the probability that a planet develops life.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we’re even alive at all.

Yes, it is one of my ultimate aims – it is the ultimate sense of football: to make the people happy, to let them live some emotions that you usually can’t get.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

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

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.

Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.

Funny is the world I live in. You’re funny, I’m interested. You’re not funny, I’m not interested.

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

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.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

You can never really live anyone else’s life, not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself.

Disagreement is something normal.

Friends are thieves of time.

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who’ll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you’re in the wrong house, that’s what it means.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.

In a way, the whole tangible universe itself is a vast residue, a skeleton of countless lives that have germinated in it and have left it, leaving behind them only a trifling, infinitesimal part of their riches.

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you’re making a mistake but let you go on with it, that’s when it ruins your mind state as an artist.

The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution – this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.

There’s a part of you – the born-again part, your spirit – that’s dead to sin. That’s why it bothers you now when you sin. The ‚wilderness‘ part of you – your soul – is your unrenewed mind, out-of-control emotions, and stubborn will.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime. I’ve came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways – either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.

It’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well.