If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

That is what fame is, isn’t it? To get the world to fall in love with you.

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.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

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.

It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles – the oppression of tyranny – to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

At the heart of every being lies creation’s dream of a principle that will one day give organic form to its fragmented treasures. God is unity.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

When I get married, it’ll be no secret.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

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.

Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it.

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.

If you like it you should enjoy it! Moderation in everything. If there’s things you really love, you should enjoy. You get one life, so you should enjoy it.

There’s not a liberal America and a conservative America – there’s the United States of America.

When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors. I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, ‚One of these days I’m going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.‘ That’s all I’ve ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.

I don’t really know that much about love, it turns out.

Just like the Alamo, somebody damn well needed to go to their aid. Well, by God, I’m going to Viet Nam’s aid!

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

I definitely don’t think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.

Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish.

Only the really plain people know about love – the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night’s date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn’t think of looking at another woman.

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.

When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.

One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you’d see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother – but… when she became our child, the affection came.

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.

A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel.

A youth, when at home, should be filial and, abroad, respectful to his elders. He should be earnest and truthful. He should overflow in love to all and cultivate the friendship of the good. When he has time and opportunity, after the performance of these things, he should employ them in polite studies.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

Respect the burden.

Ever since I dated a woman, I know what it is to grab a curve on a woman’s body. Skinny’s not fine when the lights are low.

Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion – towards ourselves and towards all living beings.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

It’s hard for anybody who’s been with me not to feel starved for affection when I’m making love to my ideas. Maybe it’s not meant for me to settle down and be married.

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

My mother was and will always remain my greatest hero.

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.

Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can’t ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment’s notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow – that’s vulnerability.