I want to marry Arline because I love her – which means I want to take care of her. That is all there is to it. I want to take care of her. I am anxious for the responsibilities and uncertainties of taking care of the girl I love.

I desire to press forward for direction to my Master in all things; but as to trusting to my own obedience and righteousness, I should be worse than a fool and ten times worse than a madman.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

The old-fashioned idea is that responsibility falls upon those who borrow and lend. Money was not borrowed by campesinos, assembly plant workers, or slum-dwellers. The mass of the population gained little from borrowing, indeed often suffered grievously from its effects.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

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.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‚understand‘ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

I think it’s my responsibility, as a person of influence… to sometimes try to do what I can.

I’m not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.

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 had never been in charge of anything. I’d always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry. I always had a boss yelling at me. So I’d never been in charge of an organization.

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I’m writing about New York.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

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

It’s a very confusing era that we’re in.

I’ll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it’s sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.

Certain though I am – and ever more certain – that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

Our combat mission is ending, but our commitment to Iraq’s future is not.

I’m gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

Marty was an extraordinary person. Of all the boys I had dated, he was the only one who really cared that I had a brain. And he was always – well, making me feel that I was better than I thought I was.

There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt. And, of course, there are Christian monks and nuns who already use Buddhist methods in order to develop their devotion, compassion, and ability to forgive.

The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.

I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn’t care what kind of movies I made.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

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.

I’m all about peace. I’m all about unity. I’m all about love.

I am not deeply involved in Australian politics but I know there are prime ministers, governments around the world who are not acting responsibly in relation to climate change.

I always wanted a family.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

My mother was a full-time mother. She didn’t have much of her own career, her own life, her own experiences… everything was for her children. I will never be as good a mother as she was. She was just grace incarnate. She was the most generous, loving – she’s better than me.

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

After all, life hasn’t much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

Lovers often invest their first meetings with retrospective significance, as if to try to conjure the elements of the numinous out of the stubborn witness of the everyday.

After you finish a book, you know, you’re dead. But no one knows you’re dead. All they see is the irresponsibility that comes in after the terrible responsibility of writing.

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

Why do Jewish men die before their wives? They want to.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.

No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I’m not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings.

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

The joy and love that I get from playing football are unbelievable. It is such a feeling that I want to give everything that I have got. I just enjoy it, I am living a life that I never even dreamt of.

I love the attention but I don’t like too much of it.

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of error. God would change any spend thrift politician into a responsible Pope.

There is a ‚sanctity‘ involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else – I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.