I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

All men hate the nagging.

All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader.

It doesn’t matter where you come from, what you have or don’t have, what you lack, or what you have too much of. But all you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to.

I’m first and foremost a writer. I followed my personal legend, my childhood dream of becoming a writer, but I can’t say why I’m one.

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

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

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

You don’t want to live your life and then meet someone. You want to share your life with someone. That’s what I’m missing right now.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

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

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

You can’t have a relationship with a device whose limits are unknown to you, because without limits, it keeps becoming something else.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

I have a very good family. I’m very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It’s one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.

He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.

Keeping score is for games, not friendships.

To me, if you’re trying to impress a girl, get a date, they’re gonna like that more because you’re a confident guy. That’s what it comes down to.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.

I kind of love Cole Miller.

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

Racing, competing, it’s in my blood. It’s part of me, it’s part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.

At the end of the day, we started playing football because we loved it.

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

I’m in awe of the universe, but I don’t necessarily believe there’s an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance.

‚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!

I don’t want enemies. I want friends, and I want them in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and loving whoever they want to.

To be able to throw one’s self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman’s smile – that is happiness.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

I would say that jazz is my own language.

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.

If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.

I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

The way to know life is to love many things.

A lot of people like to do certain things, but they’re not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything.

Sometimes you can’t prioritise family and you feel guilty.

Confidence, as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I loved cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.

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.

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

Dividers seek to make themselves look or feel better by making others feel worse. They damage relationships, fracture teams and organizations, and create havoc in people’s lives.

My mother taught children to love to dance.