I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

I can’t prove it scientifically, that there’s a God, but I believe.

I have some good friends of my own who happen to be gay, and when it comes to gay, straight, or whatever, I’m for anything life-affirmative. I’m for gay power, straight power, male power, female power; everybody should feel empowered without oppressing anyone who’s different.

I married my best friend that happens to be a girl.

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.

It’s like a muscle – if you stop going to the gym or stop running, you get weak. The military teaches you these great values, but we don’t keep up the discipline on our own, and we lose it. So wherever you go, keep that discipline up.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They’re going outside and trying everything. They don’t realize that it’s right inside themselves.

The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.

I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It’s the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.

Relish everything that’s inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.

I’m not happy all the time, and I wouldn’t want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

When someone does a small task beautifully, their whole environment is affected by it.

It’s fun to be hopelessly in love. It’s dangerous, but it’s fun.

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

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

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

Risk is a part of God’s game, alike for men and nations.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is harmony in the house; when there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation; when there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.

People like music when they’re in love, but they don’t need it as much. You need music when you’re missing someone or you’re pining for someone or you’re forgetting someone or you’re trying to process what just happened.

My mother always used to say, ‚Well, if you had been born a little girl growing up in Egypt, you would go to church or go to worship Allah, but surely if those people are worshipping a God, it must be the same God‘ – that’s what she always said. The same God with different names.

When we value correct principles, we have truth – a knowledge of things as they are.

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that justifies this goodness and this love?

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

Crazy players love me. I don’t know why.

I’m doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.

In this quest to seek and find God in all things, there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good.

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

Compliment three people every day.

The American people are bigger than any president. I suppose I have faith in my country and in what it is founded on and the values we hold dear.

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

Only the really plain people know about love – the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

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

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

There will be days when I walk in an arena and people will cheer and then there might be days when I walk in an arena and people might boo, but it all sounds the same to me because it’s all just noise that lets me know that I’m relevant.

I don’t feel that I’m explaining the world or teaching people anything. And I’m not trying to be a mirror, showing them what’s really going on the world. All I’m trying to do is think of stuff that’s funny, just like when I’m kidding around with my friends.

You’ve got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.

White… is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black… God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.

I always wanted a great love affair: something that feels big and full, really honest, and enough. No moment should feel slight, false, or a little off. For me, it had to be everything.

God wants to bless us where we are.

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

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

Writing is a solitary experience. I’m extremely superstitious. If I talk about the book or name the title out loud before finishing, I feel the energy I need to write will be drained. It’s so intimate, I can’t even share it with my wife.

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.

My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There’s a lot of that in Silicon Valley.

The heart is forever inexperienced.

Let my enemies devour each other.

All of the people in my life whom I consider to be close friends or colleagues are good thinkers.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

That is what fame is, isn’t it? To get the world to fall in love with you.

God isn’t compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.