Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

Well, it’s looks like I’ve a love-hate thing going on with Monaco.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Whenever I’m confused about something, I ask God to reveal the answers to my questions, and he does.

It’s not possible to stop love.

About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they’re just one thing.

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.

Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fact, everything we know is only some kind of approximation because we know that we do not know all the laws as yet.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

I’ve always believed in God. I also think that’s the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you’re in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.

Is man one of God’s blunders? Or is God one of man’s blunders?

Lovers often invest their first meetings with retrospective significance, as if to try to conjure the elements of the numinous out of the stubborn witness of the everyday.

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?

Nothing reflects so much honor on a workman as a trial of his work and its endurance of it. So it is with God. It honors Him when His saints preserve their integrity.

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

Like every parent, when you start your family, your life completely changes. And you completely live for someone else. I find that the most extraordinary thing. Your life is handed over to someone else. From that moment on, they come first in every choice you make. It’s the most wonderful thing.

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds, they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material.

Bob Dylan is like an alien on this earth, and I love him! I cried when I saw him play live because I was so close to him.

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God – but to create him.

I’m so nervous. I’ve always been nervous, ever since I was a kid.

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.

I have more friends in New York than Paris.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever – this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!

If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word – prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

Don’t get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life… Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

There is no love of life without despair of life.

If someone lies, well, you had a choice to trust that person or not. I think the way my father raised me, well, he trusted everybody. And that worked for him.

Christmas is the perfect time to celebrate the love of God and family and to create memories that will last forever. Jesus is God’s perfect, indescribable gift. The amazing thing is that not only are we able to receive this gift, but we are able to share it with others on Christmas and every other day of the year.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.