I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

I’m always cast in these strange men… that’s not me, really.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

The things that transfixed you as a child, that you found most exciting was not a passing fancy, but a message about what you’re supposed to do.

Actually, you have to be a little bit in love with your leading man and vice versa. If you’re going to portray love, you have to feel it. You can’t do it any other way. But you don’t carry it beyond the set.

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

There are two kinds of people in this world. ‚I‘ people and ‚we‘ people. I’ve always tried to be a ‚we‘ person.

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.

I can’t jump the highest. I’m obviously not the biggest, not the strongest.

I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn’t think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older, you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that’s happening to me.

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there’s nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

My family, frankly, they weren’t folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn’t raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.

This is love: the flowering of love is meditation.

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

I can’t keep somebody from being a star, and I can’t make somebody a star, and nobody can.

I always keep my guard up with guys and I guess that can get in the way sometimes. I can make them go through hell.

There are always people always asking you for something. But I feel like I have a foundation. I have a supporting cast where it doesn’t bother me too much.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

It’s the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world.

If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

Love is the one wild card.

If you’re embarrassed because you have some notion about how men are supposed to behave, and it doesn’t include weeping, then you have some personal work to do.

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.

I felt I had to solve everyone’s problems.

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

I don’t tell people, ‚You’re okay the way that you are.‘ That’s not the right story. The right story is, ‚You’re way less than you could be.‘

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.

‚They‘ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‚they.‘ You might have a personal ‚they.‘ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‚they.‘

It is better to be deceived by one’s friends than to deceive them.

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

Make bold choices and make mistakes. It’s all those things that add up to the person you become.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.

Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.

Young love is wild and outrageous, laughing at moderation and blinding us to common sense.

I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

Be nice to your children. After all, they are going to choose your nursing home.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

I have met 18 million youth, and each wants to be unique.

I want to challenge you today to get out of your comfort zone. You have so much incredible potential on the inside. God has put gifts and talents in you that you probably don’t know anything about.

Oh, my mama was awesome. Very strict, overreligious, loved the Lord, loved rules. But she had to be that way because of where we were growing up, the neighborhood I was from.

If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

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

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.