In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.

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

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he ever planted. The whole continent was a garden, and from the beginning, it seemed to be favored above all the other wild parks and gardens of the globe.

MySpace is my wife… Facebook is my mistress.

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

Synergy is better than my way or your way. It’s our way.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

I love hugging people. I still hug everybody in my meet-and-greet lines.

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.

I’ve seen my friends take someone back after they’ve cheated because they fit perfectly.

I am a generous man, by nature, and far more trusting than I should be. Indeed. The real world is risky territory for people with generosity of spirit. Beware.

Instead of being just a church that welcomes and receives by keeping the doors open, let us try also to be a church that finds new roads, that is able to step outside itself and go to those who do not attend Mass, to those who have quit or are indifferent.

Sooner or later we’re all someone’s dog.

My family is very good about visiting me, and other friends as well.

Standing in support of children is something we should all be able to get behind, regardless of party affiliation.

I can’t go out with a Republican.

You can stroke people with words.

For me, it’s about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It’s where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that’s very important to me.

Most of the people that I deal with are human. So I’ve had a lot of experience with that.

It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

It’s important to love in hip hop.

The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

Familiarity breeds contempt – and children.

I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it’s almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

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

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people’s kids than I did my own.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

Let’s be very clear: Strong men – men who are truly role models – don’t need to put down women to make themselves feel powerful. People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.

I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can’t be locked up with anyone for too long.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

Let it be our delight to find our society in the circle of which Jesus is the center, and let us make those our friends who are the friends of Jesus.

I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.

A queer fellow and a jolly fellow is the grasshopper. Up the mountains he comes on excursions, how high I don’t know, but at least as far and high as Yosemite tourists.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.

Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don’t accept it, it’s their loss.

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.

I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.

I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don’t know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.

I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this time, experiences in the world. And that is so organic – I use this metaphor a lot but I’ll use it again – it’s like a pine tree producing pine cones, or a blackberry bush producing blackberries – it’s just what happens with this being, now.

If a man’s character is to be abused there’s nobody like a relative to do the business.