I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we’re small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.

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.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

The ‚public‘ scares me, but people I trust.

If music be the food of love, play on.

The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody’s ego, that’s it, game over.

The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.

I’m not ashamed to say I fear something.

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

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure – the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

I’m drawn to bad romances.

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!

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.

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

When you think about it, three of our biggest financial decisions in life are made at times of peak emotional excitement: deciding to get married, buying a home, and having kids.

They are resilient children, but they are children, and as much as they need help to understand the hard truths in life, they also need what we all need – protection and love.

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

William Maxwell’s my favorite North American writer, I think. And an Irish writer who used to write for ‚The New Yorker‘ called Maeve Brennan, and Mary Lavin, another Irish writer. There were a lot of writers that I found in ‚The New Yorker‘ in the Fifties who wrote about the same type of material I did – about emotions and places.

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

I love to play. And fortunately, I don’t know a lot of musicians that suck. I know a bunch of really good ones, and they’re always up for playing.

If you get something right, you really feel it, right in your chest, on stage. I think it’s an incomparable experience.

I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what’s in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women… no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.

A family looks for ways to support and inspire one another.

Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.

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

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

A relationship can give you a gut wrenching feeling sometimes. It’s a real emotional ride.

The human heart is the same the world over.

The average Hollywood film star’s ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

I was always interested in choreography – in making people think and feel something.

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

One of the most terrible feelings in the world is knowing that someone else doesn’t like you. Especially when you don’t know what you’ve done to deserve it.

I was gutted to leave my boyfriend at home when I started my tour, but taking my pillow was like taking a little bit of him with me.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

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

I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don’t know if it’s possible forever and ever.

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.

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.

Anxiety and spiritual searching have been consistent themes with me, and that figures into my worldview. But I tend to make my songs sound like relationship songs.

I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.

It’s not possible to stop love.

Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action, which produces further confusion, further misery.

Love always ends differently and it always begins differently – especially with me.

Mad or glad, Mr. Reagan is head over heels in love with Mrs. Reagan and can’t even imagine a world without her – He loves her.

I’m the type person, my safe place to be emotional is the booth.

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

I think women go crazy for a reason. It’s not like it just happens.

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

Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don’t mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That’s not power. That’s just corruption.

I’m a people’s man – only the people matter.

The mind of a 19-year-old is very different from the mind of a 26-year-old. You grow. You get into better relationships. You experience more, meet more people, better people. But when you’re in a dark hole at an earlier point in your life – you write about the mindset you’re in at that moment.