I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.

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.

Though lovers be lost, love shall not.

The fame isn’t important to me. It’s a blessing to have. Having so many people that support me, that love me and listen to my music, is beautiful.

I don’t think there’s an option for me to fall in love slowly or at medium speed. I either do, or I don’t.

No one loves the man whom he fears.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

You may be rich, but there is one thing you can’t afford – that is, if you are a good sort – you can’t afford to spend money on your own luxuries while there are people around you wanting the necessaries of life.

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

I don’t know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace marked on the heart of the element by the psychical convergence of the universe upon itself.

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

That’s the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me.

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

I don’t think that much about my relationship with my mother and what it did to me. I sometimes feel terrible regret about her, what her life must have been like. Often, when I’m enjoying something, I think of how meager her rewards were and how much courage, in a way, she needed to go on living.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. Christ teaches that God is love.

We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.

Occasionally I’ve seen children become heavy-handed and insensitive when dealing with their aging parents, and it only caused resentment and hard feelings.

When I think of the love I feel for each member of our family, I sense, to a slight degree, the love that our Heavenly Father bears for His children.

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I’m a human being, too. And I’m on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.

Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

It’s difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn’t available.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness, and industry.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

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

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

It’s a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other beings just because they are different. They think they’re different. It’s very limiting.

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

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.

God’s dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

None of us has any personal interest above the interests of the country. Our country is more important than our careers.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Poverty is the mother of crime.