It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

If you cry over a guy, then your friends can’t date him. It can’t even be considered.

I think what’s important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.

I’m just a friendly person; that runs in my family.

If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.

The second time around, I’ll understand that, as a husband, my wife doesn’t care about my opinions. I just need to tell her the things that will continue to help me stack the brownie points.

Jesus never mistreated anyone just because they mistreated Him. He confronted them in a spirit of gentleness and then continued to love them.

Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

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

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

I don’t dabble and spend much mind or time dealing with, I don’t know, people’s perceptions of me. I truly don’t.

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.

Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

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.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

Love is easy, and I love writing. You can’t resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you’re in love.

Whether a person is straight or gay, Republican, Democrat, good person, not a good person, they’re all welcome, because to me, church is a place you’re supposed to get healed and whole and loved.

I’ve done a lot of things I’m not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that.

I’m not this horrible, evil person.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

If I think too hard about a relationship, I’ll talk myself out of it.

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it’s almost impossible to stamp out.

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

Barack knows the American Dream because he’s lived it, and he wants everyone in this country to have that same opportunity, no matter who we are or where we’re from or what we look like or who we love.

I think I could go away tomorrow. I’ve already accomplished something. It’s such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.

I really believed that fear is contagious.

You need to understand what works best for your own body.

Funny is the world I live in. You’re funny, I’m interested. You’re not funny, I’m not interested.

We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

If you get something right, you really feel it, right in your chest, on stage. I think it’s an incomparable experience.

Within one’s own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

Kids who have an understanding of how and why their feelings are what they are are much more likely to talk to us about what’s happening, and they have better skills to work it out.

The more people I reach, the more people there are that have opinions about me. Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.