I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

You can’t forgive without loving. And I don’t mean sentimentality. I don’t mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, ‚I forgive. I’m finished with it.‘

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

One of the things I’ve told men over and over and over and over is if you’re being rejected by all the women that you approach, it’s not the women!

I think that you can love people without it being the great love.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

Man’s enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

I can analyze people’s intentions. Immediately. That’s just a warning. To everyone.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn’t they’d be married too.

We all have two lives: an inner life and an outer life. Your inner life is your soul life, which includes your mind, will and emotions. Your outer life is your physical life. And while God cares about every detail of your life, He is more concerned with your inner life than your outer life.

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

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

So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another.

When people say ‚marriage‘ to me… It’s always a means to an end. Everyone’s so in a rush to define the relationship.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.

I wouldn’t say that anyone in fashion is on my side. I don’t think there’s anyone on my side.

Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.

Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I’d be a damn‘ fool if they weren’t.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

How much better it would be if all could be more aware of God’s providence and love and express that gratitude to Him.

I’ve been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she’ll kill me.

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

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings – words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

The second time around, I’ll understand that, as a husband, my wife doesn’t care about my opinions. I just need to tell her the things that will continue to help me stack the brownie points.

There are certain nights you and your image just aren’t in the same bed.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

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

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

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people’s happiness.

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or ‚our‘ country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.

Love is the most powerful thing in the world, and you know, what love brings is joy.

If I ever felt like I was getting lost in the hurricane that was storming around Nirvana, I’d just go back to Virginia.

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

Sometimes you can’t prioritise family and you feel guilty.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

Never injure a friend, even in jest.