No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

I will never be happy without having someone. Going to sleep alone kills me.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them up with great passion. That is because human beings need stories.

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

Through the ages, many of His children have had access to the blessings of the gospel, but many more have not.

I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

We’re in the last days, man – I truly, in my heart, believe that. It’s written. I could go on with biblical situations and things my grandma told me. But it’s about being at peace with myself and making good with the people around me.

I make decisions all day, so it’s nice for a woman like me to go to dinner and have the man take the menu and say, ‚Let me order.‘ Other women would be offended by that, but I’m like, ‚Good. Because I can’t make one more decision today.‘ I want someone to rub my feet without being asked.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there’s nothing really to talk about.

I know love is the answer.

A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend – and he’s a priest.

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to us than Elves, or even than Dwarves. Of old they spoke the languages of Men, after their own fashion, and liked and disliked much the same things as Men did. But what exactly our relationship is can no longer be discovered.

Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

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

Faith… must be enforced by reason… when faith becomes blind it dies.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes… and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

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.

Has Jesus saved me? I dare not speak with any hesitation here; I know He has. His Word is true; therefore, I am saved.

Love is not consolation. It is light.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

He who can be, and therefore is, another’s, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.

I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals.

I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do.

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

My philosophy is simple: It’s a down-home, common, horse-sense approach to things.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

All human evil comes from a single cause, man’s inability to sit still in a room.

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.

I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don’t know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

Words are loaded pistols.

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

My wife has about everything I can think of.

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist, and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think, ‚What a waste of energy.‘ If people want to believe in this god or that god, that’s fine by me; believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.

I really believed that fear is contagious.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops… If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

I don’t believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.