We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.

My partner Donald Trump says that married couples should always have a prenuptial agreement. True, a prenuptial is important if one partner is much richer than the other before marriage, but Kim and I don’t have one.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

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

I think I’m like most people – we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don’t deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it’s very hard not to be fearless.

Seeing Pax get extra-nervous about which shirt he is going to wear when he meets Aung San Suu Kyi, I get very moved. He rightfully doesn’t get nervous going to a movie premiere; he gets nervous going to meet her.

I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.

Every once in a while I get the highly inappropriate proposal which is like, ‚Wow, Really! You don’t even know me and I don’t know you at all, and you want that to happen? Tonight? Ok, I get off work at 7.30.‘

True nobility is exempt from fear.

If you get down and quarell everyday, you’re saying prayers to the devil, I say.

I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.

I kind of love Cole Miller.

Men walk this tightrope where any sign of weakness illicits shame, and so they’re afraid to make themselves vulnerable for fear of looking weak.

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

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

You can’t have a relationship with a device whose limits are unknown to you, because without limits, it keeps becoming something else.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Single life is so overrated.

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?

The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

I’m not ashamed to say I fear something.

I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it’s a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.

A family looks for ways to support and inspire one another.

My dad was never married. He was kind of a rolling stone. But he was never disrespectful. At the same time, even though he had women in his life when I was a kid, there wasn’t any consistency.

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don’t give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

You can write a song about being in love with someone, but you don’t have to be in love with anyone.

I’m afraid that people who know me as I usually am will discover I have another side, a better and finer side. I’m afraid they’ll mock me, think I’m ridiculous and sentimental and not take me seriously. I’m used to not being taken seriously, but only the ‚light-hearted‘ Anne is used to it and can put up with it; the ‚deeper‘ Anne is too weak.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.

When you think about it, three of our biggest financial decisions in life are made at times of peak emotional excitement: deciding to get married, buying a home, and having kids.

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

We fear that this moment will end, that we won’t get what we need, that we will lose what we love, or that we will not be safe. Often, our biggest fear is the knowledge that one day our bodies will cease functioning. So even when we are surrounded by all the conditions for happiness, our joy is not complete.

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.

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

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I’ve had. And now that I’m in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won’t be half as much anger as there was.

The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.

And no, we don’t know where it will lead. We just know there’s something much bigger than any of us here.

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.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

Actors know what actors are insecure about – and they’re all insecure.

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable. As a result, the atmosphere of our home was super-charged with fear because you never knew if what you did would make him mad or not.

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

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.

Paris by night is a nightmare now. It is not a cliche anymore.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

I wouldn’t say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I’d like my fear emotion to be less because it’s very distracting and fries my nervous system.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.