If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

I am the most helpful and open up doors for everyone and I like to share.

I love stuff from the Holy Land. It makes me feel blessed.

The difference is too nice – Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

We are not cisterns made for hoarding, we are channels made for sharing.

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.

The object of the superior man is truth.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.

As a Christian, you forgive, and you feed the hungry and clothe the naked, and you visit the sick and comfort the lonely. If I’m a true follower of my lord and saviour Jesus Christ, I got to do the things you’re supposed to be doing.

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.

God’s dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

You can see neurosis from below – as a sickness – as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate man might: respecting the neurosis as a fumbling and inefficient effort toward good ends.

I’m drawn to bad romances.

Don’t tell your problems to people: eighty percent don’t care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

The best leaders are readers of people. They have the intuitive ability to understand others by discerning how they feel and recognizing what they sense.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

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.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

All mankind love a lover.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

When people meet me, they say that I’m really kind – contrary to a lot of my music.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man’s new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit.

You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn’t enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

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.

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

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 greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

And whether you’re an honest man, or whether you’re a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you – gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

I think you have a moral responsibility when you’ve been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.

Life is about conduct and how we conduct ourselves. But two wrongs never make a right.

The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

He didn’t come out of my belly, but my God, I’ve made his bones, because I’ve attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I’m so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

I am radically, insanely, nutty in love with Jesus!

Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

The just is close to the people’s heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone’s singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person.

The funny thing is that I feel close to all my characters. Deep, deep inside them all.

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.

You may be rich, but there is one thing you can’t afford – that is, if you are a good sort – you can’t afford to spend money on your own luxuries while there are people around you wanting the necessaries of life.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

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

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.