A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.

It’s not just a matter of whether you support Obama or Romney. It’s who they have coming with them. I always keep my powder dry, as they say in the military.

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

I love life because what more is there?

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

Rocks and waters, etc., are words of God, and so are men. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

What keeps me motivated is love and passion.

Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

You see, at the end of the day, my most important title is still ‚mom-in-chief.‘ My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world.

Oh, my mama was awesome. Very strict, overreligious, loved the Lord, loved rules. But she had to be that way because of where we were growing up, the neighborhood I was from.

Just like every person who works for Dortmund is a fan of the club, it was the same at Mainz. When I was a player there, we had 800 supporters on rainy Saturday afternoons, and if we died, no one would notice or come to our funeral. But we loved the club, and we have this same feeling at Dortmund.

Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.

Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it’s a green light.

At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.

When you have enough understanding and compassion in you, then that amount of understanding and compassion will try to express itself in action. And your practice should help you to cultivate more understanding and compassion.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

We should play free football, defend lively with a passion, and have the best understanding in offence.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

It’s really easy to have a nice philosophy about openness, but moving the world in that direction is a different thing. It requires both understanding where you want to go and being pragmatic about getting there.

‚Harry Potter‘ gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

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.

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

There is something about building up a comradeship – that I still believe is the greatest of all feats – and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It’s the intense effort, the giving of everything you’ve got. It’s really a very pleasant sensation.

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

I think the perfection of love is that it’s not perfect.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

I’m not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.

I support Real Madrid. I’m a big fan of Cristiano Ronaldo.

I had a period in my life where I decided that I would never be bored again and that, if I had any free time at all, I would make plans, and I would always be doing things. It actually was great for a year or so, but then I lost all of my friends.

Basically my wife was immature. I’d be at home in the bath and she’d come in and sink my boats.

Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example and disclose their HIV status.

A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.

I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.

We’re so immaturely cynical as a culture. We’re not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they’re stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another.

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

In a relationship each person should support the other; they should lift each other up.

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.

Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well have seen the funerals of many of your siblings before you were very old.

Men’s vows are women’s traitors!

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

Everyone has the potential to become an encourager. You don’t have to be rich. You don’t have to be a genius. You don’t have to have it all together. All you have to do is care about people and initiate.

Patience is key for getting over a breakup. That, and trailing off your interaction after the breakup.

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.