Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

To be clear: we have fights and problems like any other couple.

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

Every time I come to Europe, I’m just as excited as I was my very first time, which was many, many years ago. I love that part of the world, and I especially love the fans.

I do have a lot of gays in my family now, but some will never come out.

I don’t know that much about who directs what movies, but I’m definitely inspired by the look of old movies; I find them to be really beautiful.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

My friends, there are no friends.

I love our daughters more than anything in the world – more than life itself. And while that may not be the first thing that some folks want to hear from an Ivy-league-educated lawyer, it is truly who I am. So for me, being Mom-in-Chief is, and always will be, job number one.

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

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.

I love America, it’s a much more permissive place.

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

I wouldn’t say that anyone in fashion is on my side. I don’t think there’s anyone on my side.

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!

Love always ends differently and it always begins differently – especially with me.

Anger is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns: children, women, old folks, sick folks.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

We’re hardwired for connection. There’s no arguing with the bioscience. But we can want it so badly we’re trying to hot-wire it.

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

Men and women may form associations for and among themselves and be governed by stipulations that are mutually acceptable.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

My mother made me truly appreciate women.

Women are the engine driving the growth in California’s economy. Women make California’s economy unique.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

Regarding marriage, it – somehow, it didn’t happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.

Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything. If you don’t write stories you love, you’ll never make it. If you don’t write stories that other people love, you’ll never make it.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one’s self.

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I’m upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.

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

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England – you couldn’t have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.

In the real world, children love me.

In my house I’m the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.

Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.

I know that a large part of my fan base is gay. They’ve shown me love from the start. I mean in this industry, everyone from my glam people to my dancers are gay. You can’t be homophobic in this line of work – I’m a pop star!

Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.

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

Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

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.

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

No, we don’t own our children. Our parental privilege is to love them, to lead them, and to let them go.

My mother was and will always remain my greatest hero.

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.