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.

Instead of judging people, we need to pray.

Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.

It’s not morbid to talk about death. Most people don’t worry about death, they worry about a bad death.

Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.

Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything. If you don’t write stories you love, you’ll never make it. If you don’t write stories that other people love, you’ll never make it.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

I know My God commands, whose power no power resists.

I love New York. I’m a guy for whom a New York accent is a comforting thing.

I never fall in love.

We need somebody who’s got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it’s like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old – and that’s the criterion by which I’ll be selecting my judges.

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we’d all love one another.

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

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

Love is an interesting thing.

We never love a person, but only qualities.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.

I love the ending of a movie where two people end up together. Preferably if there’s rain and an airport or running or a confession of love.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

People define Christianity differently. I think a large portion of our population are Christians, they’re not all growing in their faith, they’re not all active, but I believe that a lot of people believe in Jesus and believe that he is their Lord and Savior.

The fact that you are willing to say, ‚I do not understand, and it is fine,‘ is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

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

I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party’s candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.

I ain’t here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I’m just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that’s the way yall need Jesus.

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

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

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

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

God’s first creature, which was light.

Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.

A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work.

There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving – by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I’m no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women.

What air is to the body, to feel understood is to the heart.

You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.

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

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.

I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.

If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.

If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.

I’ve reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, and I can’t do anything to change events anyway.

The last thing the devil wants you to do is be an obedient Christian.

It is necessary to fall in love… if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

I try to see the good in everybody, and I don’t care who people are as long as they’re themselves, whatever that is.

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

Theology is unnecessary.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

We don’t get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

You are Mrs. Reagan because Mr. Reagan loves you with all his heart.

Start your week off right by getting back to what is really important – honoring God.

One likes people much better when they’re battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept.