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.

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting.

I’m not looking to exclude people, I’m looking to include them.

Letters are something from you. It’s a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail.

Every natural object is a conductor of divinity and only by coming into contact with them… may we be filled with the Holy Ghost.

A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.

Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to the universe.

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

I live in Puerto Rico, my family lives in Puerto Rico, my friends. What happens in Puerto Rico matters to me.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

There are always people always asking you for something. But I feel like I have a foundation. I have a supporting cast where it doesn’t bother me too much.

When I talk to kids, I’m really listening. When I do that, we have a little bit of a bigger connection than me being Kendrick Lamar and you being a student. It’s almost like we’re friends. Because a friend listens.

In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.

All you need is love.

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

My wife doesn’t even want to spend 2 hours with me.

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

If you’re in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that you get this strange, itchy ricochet effect.

When I think of the love I feel for each member of our family, I sense, to a slight degree, the love that our Heavenly Father bears for His children.

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who’ll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you’re in the wrong house, that’s what it means.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

There have been times that I’ve wept as I’ve gone from city to city and I’ve seen how far people have wandered from God.

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.‘

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.

It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

The people of Northern Ireland have sorted out my whole life.

Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.

I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God’s Will, united in spirit and in aim.

A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

What the heck is true love? I remember feeling, back when I was 12 and ‚going‘ with this girl, ‚Is this true love?‘

I always wanted a family.

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.

We’re so immaturely cynical as a culture. We’re not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they’re stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another.

Alimony – the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.

My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.

I think the perfection of love is that it’s not perfect.

I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: ‚Oh my God, what a blessing.‘ Then you realise it’s important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?

I thank God I’m myself and for the life I’m given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.