When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

When your mother asks, ‚Do you want a piece of advice?‘ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

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

I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I’m not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings.

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

Hear reason, or she’ll make you feel her.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

The mind of a 19-year-old is very different from the mind of a 26-year-old. You grow. You get into better relationships. You experience more, meet more people, better people. But when you’re in a dark hole at an earlier point in your life – you write about the mindset you’re in at that moment.

Though lovers be lost, love shall not.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

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

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

Of course, ‚I Will Always Love You‘ is the biggest song so far in my career. I’m famous for several, but that one has been recorded by more people and made me more money, I think, than all of them. But that song did come from a true and deep place in my heart.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

I’m all about peace. I’m all about unity. I’m all about love.

There’s only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I’ll get married again.

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.

I hate smiling. It makes me feel weak and powerless and small. I’ve always been like that; I don’t smile in any pictures.

Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.

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

The only answer to fear is faith in God, knowing He loves you unconditionally and individually.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

To be clear: we have fights and problems like any other couple.

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

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.

Every night on the court I give my all, and if I’m not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself.

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

I don’t have to ‚freedom-kiss‘ my wife when what I really want to do is French-kiss her.

In my house I’m the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

My wife is already in Heaven.

If a man’s character is to be abused there’s nobody like a relative to do the business.

Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.

Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish.

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.

I don’t like people going behind my back.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It’s the fear that we’re not good enough.

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.

Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It’s also the dangerous part and it’s an ugly emotion that hurts.

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it’s with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.

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.

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.

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

I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.

When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts.

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

I will never be happy without having someone. Going to sleep alone kills me.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

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

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

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.