You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred.

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.

Every single one of the guys that I’ve written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.

I’m convinced that no one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.

Basically my wife was immature. I’d be at home in the bath and she’d come in and sink my boats.

Ain’t nothing like a good cry.

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

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

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

U2 is an original species… there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

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

I really believed that fear is contagious.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad.

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

Friends are thieves of time.

People have different emotional levels. Especially when you’re young.

I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

Here’s what I’ve learned about deal-breakers. If you have enough natural chemistry with someone, you overlook every single thing that you said would break the deal.

We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.

Where there is love there is life.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one’s self.

You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don’t accept it, it’s their loss.

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

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

When I think of the love I feel for each member of our family, I sense, to a slight degree, the love that our Heavenly Father bears for His children.

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

I like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.

Crazy players love me. I don’t know why.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don’t just be mad at him or her.

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

That’s what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he’s wise.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don’t know why this one is different, but it is. You don’t know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can’t stop thinking about it.

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.

I love singing. I love it, and it doesn’t feel like a chore. It’s an expression.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

My sorrow, when she’s here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.