You want to do good things, and once you’ve done a couple of good things in a row, you think ‚Well gee, let’s not mess this up.‘ But I am lucky at this point that I have something I really love to do, and it completely holds my attention. I never feel frustrated by it.

There’ll always be serendipity involved in discovery.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

It is necessary to fall in love… if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

I am who I am today because of my mother.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

In my entire life, any time I’ve ever lost something, I’ve gotten something even better going around the next corner. It’s like one door closes and another door opens. As long as I can walk through the produce section in every grocery store in this country and eat the grapes that they’re going to throw away, I know I can be fine.

Ever since I dated a woman, I know what it is to grab a curve on a woman’s body. Skinny’s not fine when the lights are low.

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true.

These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I’d be a damn‘ fool if they weren’t.

Everyone has been in love, at some point or another.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.

God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow.

Money ain’t everything.

Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.

I’ve never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.

Why am I here? I’m not lucky. That’s God.

If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England – you couldn’t have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.

I just want people to be the best thems and live the happiest lives possible.

Happiness doesn’t depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.

Nothing is stopping me from doing what I love to do.

I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it’s almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.

We can’t form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

There will be days when I walk in an arena and people will cheer and then there might be days when I walk in an arena and people might boo, but it all sounds the same to me because it’s all just noise that lets me know that I’m relevant.

People are already finding ways to make their music and play it in front of people and have a life in music, I guess, and I think that’s pretty much all you can ask.

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

I love stuff from the Holy Land. It makes me feel blessed.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‚I’m possible‘!

When I give somebody something and see their face, it just makes me so happy.

Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them up with great passion. That is because human beings need stories.

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

I just know that I’m a fan of all different kinds of genres. You’re supposed to be free doing music, and that’s how I feel.

Barack knows the American Dream because he’s lived it, and he wants everyone in this country to have that same opportunity, no matter who we are or where we’re from or what we look like or who we love.

The soul is healed by being with children.

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

Writing’s just as natural to me as getting up and cooking breakfast.

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.

I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar – hide in the back and just play.

I think happiness is a goal all of us can agree on. Let’s face it – we all would like to be happy.

I love designing at the moment, I’m so happy with my work.

Football is unconditional love.

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind.

I do things I love doing. Sometimes that is maybe going out to have a drink with friends, going out partying or whatever.

I think that, whatever happens, I’m just happy I’ve written those songs and I’ve made an album. That’s really big for me, and I’m proud of that.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

I’ve been very lucky, and therefore I owe it to try and reduce the inequity in the world. And that’s kind of a religious belief. I mean, it’s at least a moral belief.

What we think, we become.