Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

The joy and love that I get from playing football are unbelievable. It is such a feeling that I want to give everything that I have got. I just enjoy it, I am living a life that I never even dreamt of.

Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

The important thing is to be in love with something.

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.

Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.

A shady business never yields a sunny life.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

People will try to bring you down, but you gotta go up.

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

There’s hope for everyone. That’s what makes the world go round.

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

As apostles and prophets, we are concerned not only for our children and grandchildren but for yours as well – and for each of God’s children.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.

I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background, and I think the greatest thing to do is to pray that God will give you love for them, and I do.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

My sorrow, when she’s here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.

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

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.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

I kind of love Cole Miller.

Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what’s in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.

Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.

There’s only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I’ll get married again.

While there’s life, there’s hope.

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

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion – towards ourselves and towards all living beings.

The fame isn’t important to me. It’s a blessing to have. Having so many people that support me, that love me and listen to my music, is beautiful.

Life’s too short to deal with other people’s insecurities.

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.

Choosing an attitude of faith will release peace out of your spirit and into your soul.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

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.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace marked on the heart of the element by the psychical convergence of the universe upon itself.

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.

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.

‚Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

Everybody likes a compliment.

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

When things are going bad, don’t get all bummed out. Don’t get startled; don’t get frustrated. If you can say the word ‚good,‘ guess what? It means you’re still alive. It means you’re still breathing.