If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

Many people find the universe confusing – it’s not.

Hanging out with politicians and corporations is very unhip work. But I think that the U2 audience have turned out to be incredibly subtle in their understanding.

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.

Let’s pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

When you really don’t like a guy, they’re all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they’re no longer interested.

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

If you’re talking to a man who wouldn’t fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you’re talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.

We don’t get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

Basically my wife was immature. I’d be at home in the bath and she’d come in and sink my boats.

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

Those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

So let’s be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone’s wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don’t dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like – that’s a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

The answer to many of the domestic problems we face is not higher taxes and more spending. It is less waste, more results and greater freedom for the individual American to earn a rightful place in his own community – and for States and localities to address their own needs in their own ways, in the light of their own priorities.

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.

I suppose for a very long time I’ve been trying to understand how it is that people might make sense out of their lives and make meaning and make their lives meaningful in the face of the trouble that life brings.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

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.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

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!

Brad was a huge surprise to me. I think we were both the last two people who were looking for a relationship. I certainly wasn’t. I was quite content to be a single mom with Mad.

Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity’s belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.

Being part of a community with a church at its centre and singin‘ hymns is a great thing to do.

No man wants to settle down. It happens. Eventually you’re going to bump into somebody that makes you go, ‚Hmm, I don’t mind seeing this person every day.‘

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‚If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?‘ But… the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‚If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?‘

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you’re getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand.

I never thought I’d have children; I never thought I’d be in love, I never thought I’d meet the right person. Having come from a broken home – you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don’t look for them.

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

We are not without empathetic terror when we open Pascal’s ‚Pensees‘ and read, ‚I am the great silent spaces between worlds.‘

Counsel with your parents is a privilege at any age.

I particularly admire are Mark Twain and Jerome K. Jerome who wrote in a certain tone of voice which was humane and understanding of humanity, but always ready to annotate its little foibles. I think I’d lay my cards down on that, and say that it’s that that I’m trying to do.

Familiarity breeds contempt – and children.