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

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: ‚Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?‘ We must always consider the person.

If I love you, I show you I love you every day. Little things, big things.

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

Everyone, no doubt, remains first and foremost a man of his own country and continues to draw from it his motive force.

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.

I said I would never wear my gold again because it would be insensitive and disrespectful to all the people who died and lost everything in Katrina.

I’m a mama’s boy because everything I do is with respect to my mother. I won’t do a movie or a video that would bring disrespect to my mother.

Men who think that a woman’s past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.

I’m a nationalist. I’m a patriot. Nothing is wrong. I’m a born Hindu. Nothing is wrong. So, I’m a Hindu nationalist, so yes, you can say I’m a Hindu nationalist because I am a born Hindu, I’m patriotic, so nothing is wrong in it.

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

I don’t want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.

The joy and love that I get from playing football are unbelievable. It is such a feeling that I want to give everything that I have got. I just enjoy it, I am living a life that I never even dreamt of.

The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.

I believe in the Golden Rule – The Man with the Gold… Rules.

Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man’s intelligence and his comprehension… would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.

Some people will have to be afraid. Those who plunder the nation, deliver injustice, will have to feel scared of me. And I am not afraid of admitting this. Government cannot be so lenient that it forgives them.

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?

All men by nature desire knowledge.

A youth, when at home, should be filial and, abroad, respectful to his elders. He should be earnest and truthful. He should overflow in love to all and cultivate the friendship of the good. When he has time and opportunity, after the performance of these things, he should employ them in polite studies.

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck it around our teeth. We really did look like pirates and dressed to look the part.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.

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.

Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Political courage is not political suicide.

There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

I’ve always loved the fans in Scotland and have a little Scottish blood of my own.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

There is always safety in valor.

My mother would kill me if I posed nude! My mother raised me with certain standards.

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

We’re not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.

I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.

I know love is the answer.

If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.

My wife is already in Heaven.

Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.