We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother – but… when she became our child, the affection came.

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.

We never love a person, but only qualities.

Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.

Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.

Some people love so hard that they can’t control those emotions when they’re at their deepest point.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

I wanted to imbue Ziggy with real flesh and blood and muscle, and it was imperative that I find Ziggy and be him.

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

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

I married my best friend that happens to be a girl.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It’s experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn’t they’d be married too.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

I no longer feel attracted to the well-made novel. I want to write the story that will zero in and give you intense, but not connected, moments of experience. I guess that’s the way I see life. People remake themselves bit by bit and do things they don’t understand.

This is love: the flowering of love is meditation.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain – we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

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.

When you become a Christian, something truly amazing happens: God comes to live inside your heart. You become the home of God.

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.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we’re blood.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

I can imagine it’s hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn’t know.

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.

The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

I became the kind of parent my mother was to me.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

My mother did not like children.

There’s a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It’s deceptive because when you have pride, you’re usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn’t sell well.

All you need is love.

I purposely don’t talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But I do say that I want you to be blessed. To me, prosperity is having health, having great children, having peace, good relationships. It’s not about the money.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

As I get older, I tend to put more into family than I used to.

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

You can’t be in love with a Google search.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

I would be married, but I’d have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It’s the magic sauce.

We were born with a capacity to grow, love, marry, and form families.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

They died hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

No, we don’t own our children. Our parental privilege is to love them, to lead them, and to let them go.

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.

If you like it you should enjoy it! Moderation in everything. If there’s things you really love, you should enjoy. You get one life, so you should enjoy it.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

If I wouldn’t have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.