I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness.

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

It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being.

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

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

Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.

Most of the time, I’m not even working; I’m just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky.

What’s important for my daughter to know is that… if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty to make sure other people have those opportunities as well.

They might not need me; but they might. I’ll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.

Absolutely not. I have no problem with commitment. In fact, I love having someone in my life.

Women feel empowered when they can do the things that are supposed to be only for men, you know? It breaks boundaries, it’s liberating, and it’s empowering when you feel like, ‚Well, I can do that, too.‘

Still and all, why bother? Here’s my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

Love to everybody who is out there progressing and taking things to the next level.

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

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

I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

All those who believe in psychokinesis – raise my hand.

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

The only answer to fear is faith in God, knowing He loves you unconditionally and individually.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.

The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.

People have me pinned as a shark or a predator in some way, and in no way am I that. I wouldn’t want to hurt anyone. I want to defend people. I want to help people.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

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

I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.

The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.

I’m a human being and I fall in love and sometimes I don’t have control of every situation.

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.

Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: With mindfulness, you can see that she is unhappy, that she is suffering. You can see her wrong perceptions. You can see that she is not beautiful when she says things that are unkind.

Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

Like so many American families, our families weren’t asking for much. They didn’t begrudge anyone else’s success or care that others had much more than they did… in fact, they admired it.

I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.

I didn’t want to submit to the army and then, on the day of judgment, have God say to me, ‚Why did you do that?‘ This life is a trial, and you realize that what you do is going to be written down for Judgment Day.

I love my daddy. My daddy’s everything. I hope I can find a man that will treat me as good as my dad.

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God’s divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego’s insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you.

Where there is love there is life.

Now, as a nation, we don’t promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That’s an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

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

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies – or else? The chain reaction of evil – hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars – must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

In the flush of love’s light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.

I dote on his very absence.

Not only does God play dice, but… he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

Nobody believes in completely unadulterated capitalism.

I think that there’s no doubt that as I see friends, families, children of gay couples who are thriving, you know, that has an impact on how I think about these issues.

I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all.

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

A fundamentalist can’t bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.

From caring comes courage.

There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.

I take inspiration from everyone and everything. I’m inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers.