Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies – or else? The chain reaction of evil – hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars – must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

We’re all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

Any man who doesn’t love his mama can’t be no friend of mine.

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

I love food.

Love is not consolation. It is light.

I never thought I’d have children; I never thought I’d be in love, I never thought I’d meet the right person. Having come from a broken home – you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don’t look for them.

The root of this possibility of doing good – that we all have – is in creation.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.

If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me.

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

If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

I just really believe people have to get hungry. I think maybe what we need to do, instead of trying to stuff our beliefs down people’s throats, is just pray for them to really be hungry and to see their neediness.

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

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

God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

‚Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that justifies this goodness and this love?

We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author’s world.

As apostles and prophets, we are concerned not only for our children and grandchildren but for yours as well – and for each of God’s children.

Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

I don’t have to ‚freedom-kiss‘ my wife when what I really want to do is French-kiss her.

My mom and I have always been there for each other. We had some tough times, but she was always there for me.

Every loss of life is terrible.

Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes, Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn’t take much to make us flip back into monkeys again.

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

I was 14, and I fell in love with Pink Floyd.

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

In all my wild mountaineering, I have enjoyed only one avalanche ride; and the start was so sudden, and the end came so soon, I thought but little of the danger that goes with this sort of travel, though one thinks fast at such times.

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone’s wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

I’m a pretty tough guy, you know. I’m a pretty hard man. I’ve got a lot of compassion, but I don’t waste time with people.

It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.

Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can – that is their secret.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

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

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.