Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

Man’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

All my adult life people have been helping me.

Really showing love requires more than just words.

Indeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.

I absolutely adore Christmas.

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston, I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song, and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, ‚Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.‘

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

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.

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

Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night’s date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn’t think of looking at another woman.

I always ask God to work through me and let me be a light of some kind and help in this world, so I always pray for that, and I always want to do good.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don’t think anybody has held this job who hasn’t felt personally responsible for those being killed.

In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

I knew through the surgeries that he was on my side and that this wasn’t something where I was gonna feel less of a woman, because my husband wasn’t gonna let that happen.

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.

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

They died hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

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

When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That’s when you can get more creative in solving problems.

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

When the people become involved in their government, government becomes more accountable, and our society is stronger, more compassionate, and better prepared for the challenges of the future.

It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can’t do anything with that except do it.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

I’m definitely gaining new fans, and that’s the key of any success… gain more love.

I love reading people. I really enjoy watching, observing, and being able to figure out a person, the reason they wore that dress, the reason they smell the way they do.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

I have done for my country, and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God – my daughter to my country.

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.

Intimates are predestined.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

If you give, you will be blessed.

We just cannot worry about ourselves.

Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply.

You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

Money doesn’t mean anything to me. I’ve made a lot of money, but I want to enjoy life and not stress myself building my bank account. I give lots away and live simply, mostly out of a suitcase in hotels. We all know that good health is much more important.

When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.

Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don’t know why this one is different, but it is. You don’t know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can’t stop thinking about it.

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

Take my wife… Please!

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

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

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don’t accept it, it’s their loss.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

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