One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

I never thought I’d have children; I never thought I’d be in love, I never thought I’d meet the right person. Having come from a broken home – you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don’t look for them.

We’re so immaturely cynical as a culture. We’re not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they’re stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another.

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.

Understand: any phenomenon in the world is by nature complex. The people you deal with are equally complex. Any action sets off a limitless chain of reactions. It is never so simple as A leads to B. B will lead to C, D and beyond.

Men and women do think differently, and frankly, we don’t understand each other. Not at all! But that’s what makes relationships so amazing.

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

I married my best friend that happens to be a girl.

It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

The devil ain’t got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil’s a good friend, too… because when you don’t know him, that’s the time he can mosh you down.

I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.

Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.

I’ve always wanted male friends that I could be real intimate with and talk about important things with and be as affectionate with that person as I would be with a girl.

To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

We can be civil. We can still be friends, and be Democrats and Republicans, and have different views.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

It used to be the case, like you’d switch jobs, and then maybe you wouldn’t keep in touch with all the people that you knew from that old job, just because it was too hard. But one of the things that Facebook does is it makes it really easy to just stay in touch with all these people.

I know love is the answer.

I’m pretty sure I don’t have any songs that are about how much I love someone. They’re all either about, like, ‚I hate you,‘ or ‚You make me hate me.‘

You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I’m obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment.

When you’re traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonically, lyrically, visually. Conversations with women with different accents and stories told in those accents. I like to create characters based on different people I’ve met, and relationships. I like to tell stories loosely based on real-life events.

I’m sick of the tabloids‘ saying I obsess over guys. Why would you obsess over guys? They don’t like it.

Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

Logically, harmony must come from the heart… Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.

That’s what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he’s wise.

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

It’s fun to be hopelessly in love. It’s dangerous, but it’s fun.

What the mind doesn’t understand, it worships or fears.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror – and America is honored to be their friend.

If I think too hard about a relationship, I’ll talk myself out of it.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man’s self.

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

Though lovers be lost, love shall not.

I mean, families are weird.

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

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

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

Fame may go by and – so long, I’ve had you.

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

People need motivation to do anything. I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation.

Every single one of the guys that I’ve written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.

They do not love that do not show their love.

Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.