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.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

I see clearly that the thing the church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful; it needs nearness, proximity.

When you’re around the kids, you feel like you act the most grown up just because you’re supposed to lead. I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.

Being acknowledged for your work is always a great accomplishment, whether it’s people in my city, kids in the street, all the way up to the Grammys.

He knows my limitations and where I’m a good wife and a good mom.

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

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

The ‚New Testament‘, now, I quite liked. Jesus had a lot of good things to say, and as for his father, he must have been highly thought of by the community to work with wood – a material that couldn’t have been widely available in Palestine.

Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

What really raises one’s indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.

If someone decides they’re not going to be happy, it’s not your problem. You don’t have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.

I purposely don’t talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But I do say that I want you to be blessed. To me, prosperity is having health, having great children, having peace, good relationships. It’s not about the money.

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

You know what, I’m very attracted to someone who makes me laugh and is that charming. Really, I could be charmed by anyone. I’m just a sucker for somebody that is charming.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I’d worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: ‚Don’t hide these things from me. I’d rather you ask me these things straight out, and I’ll answer all your questions.‘

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

Here’s what I’ve learned about deal-breakers. If you have enough natural chemistry with someone, you overlook every single thing that you said would break the deal.

The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

I’m a girls‘ girl. I have guy friends, but the problem with having guy friends is, like, I always get linked to them, and they’ll end up in a slideshow of people I’ve apparently dated on the Internet.

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

I don’t keep people around me that aren’t family. You don’t get to stay. Unless you’re eating at the table with us, you’re not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.

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

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.

Anyone who is practicing understanding and compassion can exemplify true power. Anyone can be a Buddha.

When you have good friends you’ve been around, every time they talk, you don’t give them your full attention. You don’t look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you’re listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.

I’m not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I’m the girl who rarely has a boyfriend.

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.

My husband is everything to me and without him it’s just not the same.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

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.

I can’t go out with a Republican.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

I had no bad moment in my relationship with Dortmund. Not one second.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

I mean we all need a second chance sometimes.

The infinite faith I have in people’s ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

Liverpool people are famous for liking clothes and fashion; they are very social and lively people, and we know that they like clothes.

Sometimes you can’t prioritise family and you feel guilty.

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.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

A child wants things to be a certain way. When you get to be an adult, you just understand that some people are good, some are not, and you can’t be naive.

I feel like if you’re a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what.

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.

Marriage is scary to me, man.

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on, whereas I, in my 20s, was reading everything. Everything seemed important. But they were only interested in the writers they admired when they were young, and I didn’t understand it then, but now, now I understand it.

For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

I’ve had moments when I’ve thought about somebody, picked up the phone to call them and they are on the line already, and I think that maybe there’s some vibration, some connection.

When you have enough understanding and compassion in you, then that amount of understanding and compassion will try to express itself in action. And your practice should help you to cultivate more understanding and compassion.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.