When I was married, I definitely went through a lying period.

My family is very good about visiting me, and other friends as well.

When people say ‚marriage‘ to me… It’s always a means to an end. Everyone’s so in a rush to define the relationship.

Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God’s law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.

Always be sincere, even if you don’t mean it.

I’m trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It’s so easy to get turned.

Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner’s inquest.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

The more people I reach, the more people there are that have opinions about me. Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.

I really have had to swallow my own prejudice at times.

It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.

I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying.

All mankind love a lover.

I’ve been to those places where it’s ‚poor, pitiful me.‘

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I’m really not worth being called an artist at all.

I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they’re not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don’t care about money, and that’s not my problem.

I’ve done the bad-boy thing. It was fun for a good three months. But the thing about bad boys is, you have to keep in mind, you’re never gonna marry a bad boy.

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

You’re unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest – that would be like a blind man willing to see.

A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend – and he’s a priest.

All honor’s wounds are self-inflicted.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

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

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

In less than a hundred years, we have found a new way to think of ourselves. From sitting at the center of the universe, we now find ourselves orbiting an average-sized sun, which is just one of millions of stars in our own Milky Way galaxy.

I’m no genius.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

It is always your next move.

For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

I am sure there’s going to be times when I do things wrong that no one’s going to like and everyone’s going to think I’m terrible and rubbish but I know I’m going to go through those times, and it’s just about understanding that that’s going to happen.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other’s faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.

Some people are very good at being ‚stars‘ and it suits them. I’m grudging about it and I find it annoying.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

Without forgiveness, there’s no future.

As you get older, you have more responsibilities; you have more commitments, more events, kids, you’re married now. You still have all the things that you’ve had, plus you just keep adding.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

I feel matured in a way that I’m happy about. I’m at this other stage in my life – and it’s not a bad thing at all.

Relish everything that’s inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art.

I sometimes have a tendency to walk on the dark side.

There’s something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.

I’ve just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel are right for me and my fans.

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

I’m not perfect.

I’m a super-duper over-analyzer. You mix that with self-doubt and pressure, and that’s never healthy.