If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

My wife thinks she’s better than me at puzzles. I haven’t given in on that one yet.

There’s a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It’s deceptive because when you have pride, you’re usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn’t sell well.

They died hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It’s one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it – and sometimes three.

A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: ‚Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?‘ We must always consider the person.

The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

‚Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

Knowledge is true opinion.

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

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

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

If a person is successful, we imagine they are probably also ethical, conscientious and deserving of their good fortune. This obscures the fact that many people who get ahead have done so by doing less than moral actions, which they cleverly disguise from view.

I know that a large part of my fan base is gay. They’ve shown me love from the start. I mean in this industry, everyone from my glam people to my dancers are gay. You can’t be homophobic in this line of work – I’m a pop star!

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

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

I think women want freedom. They want to be empowered. They want hope. They want love; they want all the things that I want, and I’m not afraid to say those things and act on them, and I think that’s why they identify with me.

As commanders and staff officers, we are coaches and sentries for our units: how can we coach anything if we don’t know a hell of a lot more than just the TTPs?

Sucking up to the biggies won’t get us anywhere.

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

I’ve done the bad-boy thing. It was fun for a good three months. But the thing about bad boys is, you have to keep in mind, you’re never gonna marry a bad boy.

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Smiles are the language of love.

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

Ranking among the greatest Christmas movie classics, ‚It’s a Wonderful Life‘ tells a beautiful story about the priceless value of relationships.

Whether a person is straight or gay, Republican, Democrat, good person, not a good person, they’re all welcome, because to me, church is a place you’re supposed to get healed and whole and loved.

Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another.

My mother taught children to love to dance.

It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend’s folly.

Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

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

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people’s happiness.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

I have more friends in New York than Paris.

The average Hollywood film star’s ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

How do you know what it’s like to be stupid if you’ve never been smart?

Jesus never mistreated anyone just because they mistreated Him. He confronted them in a spirit of gentleness and then continued to love them.

If you wished to be loved, love.

To me, if you’re trying to impress a girl, get a date, they’re gonna like that more because you’re a confident guy. That’s what it comes down to.

Science is nothing but perception.

The other day I… uh, no, that wasn’t me.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

If you can’t convince them, confuse them.

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one’s self on lies and fables.

I love food.

I’m a strict, strict agnostic. It’s very different from a casual, ‚I don’t know.‘ It’s that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can’t present it as fact.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.