I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age. Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o‘ the flatterer.

What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, ‚I love you.‘

At the end of the day, we started playing football because we loved it.

Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.

To me, ideology is corrupt; it’s a parasite on religious structures. To be an ideologue is to have all of the terrible things that are associated with religious certainty and none of the utility. If you’re an ideologue, you believe everything that you think. If you’re religious, there’s a mystery left there.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.

Love is a serious mental disease.

People who don’t know the true character of God – who don’t believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger – can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.

As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.

My mother was and will always remain my greatest hero.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.

Hate has no place in the house of God.

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

I answer only to God.

The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

Worshipping the Lord means giving Him the place that he must have; worshipping the Lord means stating, believing – not only by our words – that He alone truly guides our lives; worshipping the Lord means that we are convinced before Him that He is the only God, the God of our lives, the God of our history.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you’re heartbroken, but tomorrow you’ll be in love again.

They are resilient children, but they are children, and as much as they need help to understand the hard truths in life, they also need what we all need – protection and love.

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

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.

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth – often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

I’m hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

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.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

Agape, the love of each one of us for the other, from the closest to the furthest, is in fact the only way that Jesus has given us to find the way of salvation and of the Beatitudes.

When people get married young, you don’t really understand the true definition of marriage.

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 first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

There are no rules when it comes to love.

Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent, they are making America more secure.

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

You don’t want to live your life and then meet someone. You want to share your life with someone. That’s what I’m missing right now.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Jesus is a divine guest inside of you all the time – one who loves, understands, sees and hears you. He wants to live in oneness with you… to be the centerpiece of everything you do.

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.

You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

I love Manchester. Everyone knows that – I have said it many times. Manchester is in my heart.

There’s nothing hippie about my picture of Christ. The Gospels paint a picture of a very demanding, sometimes divisive love, but love it is.

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.