A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.

I know love is the answer.

I have discovered that my interest in my dear pupil, Mabel, has ripened into a far deeper feeling than that of mere friendship. In fact, I know that I have learned to love her very sincerely.

Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.

Part of me feels you can’t say you were truly in love if it didn’t last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that’s when I’ll know it’s real – because it lasted.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

My mami and papi love my music. They’re always listening to the radio waiting for one of my songs to come on. And when it does, they turn up the volume – and turn it back down when it’s over.

Knowing that the time to sleep has come, the Lord sleeps, and does well in sleeping. Often, when we have been fretting and worrying, we should have glorified God far more had we literally gone to sleep.

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.

Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.

I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.

I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

I was gutted to leave my boyfriend at home when I started my tour, but taking my pillow was like taking a little bit of him with me.

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Love and desire are the spirit’s wings to great deeds.

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

When you really don’t like a guy, they’re all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they’re no longer interested.

If I held you any closer I would be on the other side of you.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

Everything is clearer when you’re in love.

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age. Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.

That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn’t entirely conquer – he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation.

Love is not consolation. It is light.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

I’m just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence.

Maria is the best reason to come home.

A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I’m writing about New York.

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!

I’m not a real movie star. I’ve still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother – but… when she became our child, the affection came.

Speak low, if you speak love.

Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.

We cannot be both the world’s leading champion of peace and the world’s leading supplier of the weapons of war.

It’s probably the worst feeling in the world, when you’re deeply and madly in love with a woman and you know she’s not feeling you the same way, and you don’t know why.

Do not rebuke mockers, or they will hate you; rebuke the wise, and they will love you.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.