Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

They are resilient children, but they are children, and as much as they need help to understand the hard truths in life, they also need what we all need – protection and love.

God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we’re small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.

Funny is the world I live in. You’re funny, I’m interested. You’re not funny, I’m not interested.

I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.

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

The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

Like associates with like.

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

I try not to go around looking like a hag.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

There was one incident at a movie theater where my girl got mad at these guys who were talking behind us. I never looked back there, but she was like, ‚Will you all just shut up!‘ And I just got up and moved three rows in front. She was like, ‚What are you doing?!‘ I was like, ‚You better get up here! I don’t play the fighting games.‘

I’m convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they’re stones that don’t matter. As long as you’re breathing, it’s never too late to do some good.

Why do Jewish divorces cost so much? They’re worth it.

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation’s braggart lords.

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?

I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few.

The key to winning is choosing to do God’s will and loving others with all you’ve got.

Even with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at almost anything for five minutes, you will be stunned by how marvelous life is and how incredibly lucky we are to have it.

If everyone does some good, think of what a good world this will be.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

The value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated, no question. But I want to be clear: I’m not trying to be anyone’s savior. I’m just trying to think about the future and not be sad.

I wear make-up, and it gets a little bit thicker every year.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.

Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that’s stripped down.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

Within one’s own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.

Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.

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

Girls are soft and pretty.

Counsel with your parents is a privilege at any age.

Treat your children like the blessings they are or don’t have them at all.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.

Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

Where thou art, that is home.

My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.

Keeping score is for games, not friendships.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

There is a ‚sanctity‘ involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

People have me pinned as a shark or a predator in some way, and in no way am I that. I wouldn’t want to hurt anyone. I want to defend people. I want to help people.

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

I know that I’m not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don’t know how not to.

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

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