As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

I can dance to just about anything.

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.

Puerto Rico’s relationship with music is everything. It’s an island full of talent and if you grow up there, you grow up living and breathing music.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.

I know I’m talented, but I wasn’t put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but it’s not where it begins and ends.

I don’t like cream puff, corny guys. Usually, they are the nice guys, the ones that won’t hurt you. They’ll pull out the chair for you and the whole nine yards. Everything is perfect and boring.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

MySpace is my wife… Facebook is my mistress.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It’s one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

To every soul that knows how to pray, to every soul that by faith comes to Jesus, the true mercy seat, divine sovereignty wears no dark and terrible aspect but is full of love.

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love – first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

My experiences in life are getting bigger and better. The more stuff I do, the more stuff I talk about – having kids, traveling, going through relationship problems, dealing with things in my own family. All that stuff builds character.

We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.

Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.

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.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

Crankiness is at the essence of all comedy. My wife and I were discussing the different types of cranky. There’s entertaining cranky, annoying cranky, angry cranky.

My mother fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56. She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold them in her arms. But my other children will never have the chance to know her and experience how loving and gracious she was.

I thought that I wrote songs and wrote music, and that was sort of what I thought I was best at doing. And because nobody else was ever doing my songs, I felt – you know, I had to go out and do them.

My favorite artists always documented emotion. Marvin Gaye and Al Green and Sade and Aaliyah.

If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.

Art was, seriously, the only thing I’d ever wanted to own. It has always been for me a stable nourishment. I use it. It can change the way that I feel in the mornings.

In one day, I have times where I’m feeling great, I feel like I love my life, and then 2:30 rolls around and I’m the angriest man alive. My wife sees it.

I’m the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that’s horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

Delhi means everything to me. This city has given me everything, and I love it.

In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love.

Every time I come to Europe, I’m just as excited as I was my very first time, which was many, many years ago. I love that part of the world, and I especially love the fans.

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything. If you don’t write stories you love, you’ll never make it. If you don’t write stories that other people love, you’ll never make it.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.

I knew through the surgeries that he was on my side and that this wasn’t something where I was gonna feel less of a woman, because my husband wasn’t gonna let that happen.

I’ll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it’s disappointing.

Wives are people who feel they don’t dance enough.

In my house I’m the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.

O, you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you, and I would have ended my life – it was only my art that held me back. Ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had brought forth all that I felt was within me.

I don’t control my writing – it controls me.

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.

Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn’t been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields.

Oh, my mama was awesome. Very strict, overreligious, loved the Lord, loved rules. But she had to be that way because of where we were growing up, the neighborhood I was from.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I’d worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: ‚Don’t hide these things from me. I’d rather you ask me these things straight out, and I’ll answer all your questions.‘

If you do things, whether it’s acting or music or painting, do it without fear – that’s my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there’s nothing to lose.

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it’s just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.

History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid.