Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

There are two kinds of people in this world. ‚I‘ people and ‚we‘ people. I’ve always tried to be a ‚we‘ person.

The reason children accept discipline from their parents is because they know their parents love them.

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.

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.

Every once in a while I get the highly inappropriate proposal which is like, ‚Wow, Really! You don’t even know me and I don’t know you at all, and you want that to happen? Tonight? Ok, I get off work at 7.30.‘

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.

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

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God’s divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego’s insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you.

I am who I am today because of my mother.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

The incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in vibrating with the passion for unity. This note, which is essential to every form of mysticism, has even penetrated them so deeply that we find ourselves falling under a spell simply by uttering the names of their Gods.

‚Young Indiana Jones’ was one of the happiest times I ever had, so I love television.

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like – that’s a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

What good am I? I can’t have kids. I can’t cook. I’ve been divorced three times. Who would want me?

I boldly assert, in fact I think I know, that a lot of friendships and connections absolutely depend upon a sort of shared language, or slang. Not necessarily designed to exclude others, this can establish a certain comity and, even after a long absence, re-establish it in a second.

I don’t know what’s better gettin‘ laid or gettin‘ paid.

I’m not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving – by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

Who, being loved, is poor?

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.

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.

My husband says I look like a Q-tip.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I’m willing to show you. In you, it’s courage and daring. In me, it’s weakness.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

I’ve never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I’ve only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.

Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you’ve got to let it grow.

I have noticed… that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

The truth is God created us to have relationship with us. He wants to love us and take care of us, and He wants us to love Him. That’s where our walk with Christ has to start.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone’s inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.

To our brothers in Latin America and the world, we must convey that the Cuban people will overcome.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we’re small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.

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

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

You’re unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.

There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

I used to take my short stories to girls‘ homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

I can’t deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you.

I was gutted to leave my boyfriend at home when I started my tour, but taking my pillow was like taking a little bit of him with me.

I have no hostility to nature, but a child’s love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.