And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

I feel like I’m the kind of guy that would have kids before getting married. The first thing would be kids.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.

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.

The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody’s ego, that’s it, game over.

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o‘ the flatterer.

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

Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.

I always wanted to be loved.

When I think of the love I feel for each member of our family, I sense, to a slight degree, the love that our Heavenly Father bears for His children.

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I’d worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: ‚Don’t hide these things from me. I’d rather you ask me these things straight out, and I’ll answer all your questions.‘

Fear, separation, hate and anger come from the wrong view that you and the Earth are two separate entities, the Earth is only the environment. You are in the centre and you want to do something for the Earth in order for you to survive. That is a dualistic way of seeing.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

I’ve seen my friends take someone back after they’ve cheated because they fit perfectly.

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, ‚Did you sleep good?‘ I said ‚No, I made a few mistakes.‘

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

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

People were saying that David Geffen and I had gotten married and it just blew me away. Not that they thought I was gay, but that they thought I could land a guy that hot.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

I love sleep; it’s my favorite.

My mother fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56. She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold them in her arms. But my other children will never have the chance to know her and experience how loving and gracious she was.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‚yours,‘ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

My friends are my estate.

I make a lot of expressions constantly. I’m animated.

A pessimist? That’s a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.

We want justice, but at the same time, we gotta love and come together and bring unity, and I feel it’s gonna happen.

There’s a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It’s deceptive because when you have pride, you’re usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn’t sell well.

All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

Fame may go by and – so long, I’ve had you.

We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.

Yes, it is one of my ultimate aims – it is the ultimate sense of football: to make the people happy, to let them live some emotions that you usually can’t get.

The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.

He didn’t come out of my belly, but my God, I’ve made his bones, because I’ve attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I’m so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

Sometimes, you might meet somebody that you love that’s turning into a ‚they.‘ My key is invite them to Miami and take them to the ocean and let them jump off the boat in the ocean, on the sand bar, and cleanse off and pray and then go take a shower, and hopefully the ‚they‘ is out of you.

I’m the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren’t no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn’t know about them.

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

I think the depth, what children can handle and what they’re interested in, is much deeper than I think what people assume. I think it’s why sometimes we make things too simple for them.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.

She’s been married so many times she has rice marks on her face.