You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

My mother was a full-time mother. She didn’t have much of her own career, her own life, her own experiences… everything was for her children. I will never be as good a mother as she was. She was just grace incarnate. She was the most generous, loving – she’s better than me.

Man’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

‚Love Story‘ is actually about a guy that I almost dated. But when I introduced him to my family and my friends, they all said they didn’t like him. All of them!

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.

In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of ‚Who do you think you are?‘

If I’m not in love, if I’m not with a long-term companion, I cannot be happy.

I don’t know how to function without music. When I’m not making it, I’m listening to it. It gives me courage and takes care of my mind.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

I love performing, you know, because, like I say, I’m a ham for this stuff.

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.

Marriage is the death of hope.

If someone is right for you, you’ll know it.

In each soul, God loves and partly saves the whole world which that soul sums up in an incommunicable and particular way.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they’re already asleep.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

I kind of love Cole Miller.

People like music when they’re in love, but they don’t need it as much. You need music when you’re missing someone or you’re pining for someone or you’re forgetting someone or you’re trying to process what just happened.

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

I had nothing growing up, but I always wanted to be ‚sexy,‘ even before I knew what the word was.

It’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well.

No one loves the man whom he fears.

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They’re just braver five minutes longer.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

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

Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

I have discovered that my interest in my dear pupil, Mabel, has ripened into a far deeper feeling than that of mere friendship. In fact, I know that I have learned to love her very sincerely.

The future is called ‚perhaps‘, which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded. The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.

I’m the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren’t no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn’t know about them.

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.

I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few.

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

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.

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I’m upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

I cannot say for certain if there is such a thing as love at first sight, but I do know that the moment I first glimpsed Winnie Nomzamo, I knew that I wanted to have her as my wife.

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

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

From my standpoint, being an artist, I want to see what the new construction is between artist and audience.

The one badge of Christian discipleship is not orthodoxy but love.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

I like to talk to myself ahead of time so when temptation comes, I’ve already made up my mind that I have the victory.

Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

You can write a song about being in love with someone, but you don’t have to be in love with anyone.

They do not love that do not show their love.

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.