But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

The connection between psychology, mythology, and literature is as important as the connection between psychology and biology and the hard sciences.

Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

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

I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair.

I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.

Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.

It’s so much easier to like people, and to let people in, to trust them until they prove that you should do otherwise. The alternative is being an iceberg.

When I’m nervous, I stutter, and I had to keep stopping and starting.

I feel a distaste for hunting, first because of a kind of Buddhist respect for the unity and sacredness of all life, and also because the pursuit of a hare or chamois strikes me as a kind of ‚escape of energy,‘ that is, the expenditure of our effort in an illusory end, one devoid of profit.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

What keeps me motivated is love and passion.

Kids are watching us. I experience it every single day. They hang on my every word, what I wear, what I say.

Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.

I can unload my opinion on anybody at anytime.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature’s gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

We think when God speaks to us, there’s going to be a boom out of Heaven or we’re going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God’s talking to us all the time. He’s talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it’s the Holy Spirit talking to us.

I love that for Barack, there is no such thing as ‚us‘ and ‚them‘ – he doesn’t care whether you’re a Democrat, a Republican, or none of the above… he knows that we all love our country… and he’s always ready to listen to good ideas… he’s always looking for the very best in everyone he meets.

I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they’re interested in.

Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can’t make head nor tail out of it.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

The way I talk is bizarre.

Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

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.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Diplomacy is the art of saying ‚Nice doggie‘ until you can find a rock.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

Love can do much, but duty more.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

People use irony as a defense mechanism.

I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman’s skillet and the man’s ax-helve.

Country radio is much more like a family than any other group of people that I’ve met.

I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

Hip-hop is ever changing but you’ll always have the pack. And you’ll always have those people who are separated from the pack.

I don’t have to ‚freedom-kiss‘ my wife when what I really want to do is French-kiss her.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

I don’t really know that much about love, it turns out.

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

I met my husband before I became a star, and he doesn’t care about any of it.

Pound’s crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don’t put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain – we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

The more you explain it, the more I don’t understand it.

You can draw inspiration from anything. If you’re a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you’re casually talking to says something that makes you so mad – you can create an entire scenario around that.

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

What’s really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.

I’ve always regretted that I never was able to talk openly with my parents, especially with my father. I’ve heard and read so many things about my family that I can no longer believe anything; every relative I question has a completely different story from the last.

When a politician uses the word ‚folks,‘ we should brace ourselves for the deceit, or worse, that is coming.

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

The voting booth joint is a great leveler; the whole neighborhood – rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky – they all turn out in one day.