It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.

To insult someone we call him ‚bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, ‚human‘ might be the greater insult.

Love is an interesting thing.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

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.

Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.

In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that’s called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.

Women. They are a complete mystery.

People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.

I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human.

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

Our love, our gratitude, our admiration for our men and women in uniform, our veterans and their families – all of that is bigger than any one party or any one election.

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness… and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

Hate has no place in the house of God.

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

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

Where love is, there God is also.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed. It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal – hardly inspiring – standards of political conduct.

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.

I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion’s roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts.

Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since, when death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God.

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds, they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material.

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, ‚Did you sleep good?‘ I said ‚No, I made a few mistakes.‘

Oh, my mama was awesome. Very strict, overreligious, loved the Lord, loved rules. But she had to be that way because of where we were growing up, the neighborhood I was from.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

Love to everybody who is out there progressing and taking things to the next level.

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

I would love to sign on to do a movie if it was the right role and if it was the right script, because I would be taking time away from music to tell a big grand story, and spend all of my time and pouring all of my emotions into being someone else. So for me to do that, it would have to be a story worth telling.

It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Anywhere I go, there is always an incredible crowd that follows me. In Rome, as I land at the airport, even the men kiss me. I love Rome.

You’re never going to kill storytelling, because it’s built into the human plan. We come with it.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

When one travels around the world, one notices to what an extraordinary degree human nature is the same, whether in India or America, in Europe or Australia.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Repeal the Missouri Compromise – repeal all compromises – repeal the Declaration of Independence – repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man’s heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.

I’ve been careful in love. I’ve been careless in love. And I’ve had adventures I wouldn’t trade for anything.