When I get married, it’ll be no secret.

I wasn’t going to shy away from getting married when I did and having a baby young and starting a family, even with the job that I chose.

Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God’s divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego’s insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you.

Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.

I always keep my guard up with guys and I guess that can get in the way sometimes. I can make them go through hell.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like – that’s a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.

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.

I just got to feel that whoever I marry has some real regard for me.

Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken. More: You have ceded them power.

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

You don’t want to live your life and then meet someone. You want to share your life with someone. That’s what I’m missing right now.

It is the duty of every thoughtful Indian not to marry. In case he is helpless in regard to marriage, he should abstain from sexual intercourse with his wife.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn’t care what kind of movies I made.

I always wanted a great love affair: something that feels big and full, really honest, and enough. No moment should feel slight, false, or a little off. For me, it had to be everything.

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

My father wasn’t a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher – one of those Victorians, hard as iron – but my dad was tough enough.

We never love a person, but only qualities.

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

I don’t want to get into it, but if you know someone, it doesn’t mean you agree with everything they say or they do.

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.

Every man’s reputation proceeds from those of his own household.

I think, a lot of times when you meet someone, you feel like you need to appear like you’re not interested in them so that they’ll be more interested in you. But what happens when you start showing him that you actually like him? What’s he gonna do then? Play the tape forward; how do you keep a guy like that? I don’t want to sign up for that.

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

No matter how beautiful a woman might be, you’re always threatened by certain… You’re always threatened by other women, period.

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.

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature’s gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

When you’re traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonically, lyrically, visually. Conversations with women with different accents and stories told in those accents. I like to create characters based on different people I’ve met, and relationships. I like to tell stories loosely based on real-life events.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.

Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

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.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

Men’s vows are women’s traitors!

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

The key to winning is choosing to do God’s will and loving others with all you’ve got.

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

A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether there is any love for the church in the hearts of those who pay so much attention to the scandals.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion’s roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.

The joy and love that I get from playing football are unbelievable. It is such a feeling that I want to give everything that I have got. I just enjoy it, I am living a life that I never even dreamt of.

I have an immense amount of respect for acting. I’ve always loved movies and was always fascinated by movie-making. But to become an actor, I wanted to commit myself.