Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

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.

I never fall in love.

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.

I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.

My friends, there are no friends.

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn’t care what kind of movies I made.

The heart is forever inexperienced.

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

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 soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don’t just want to possess it, it will find you.

It’s true that I’ve never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.

To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

Now that I’m a parent, I understand why my father was in a bad mood a lot.

If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you – gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people’s progress.

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

I hate smiling. It makes me feel weak and powerless and small. I’ve always been like that; I don’t smile in any pictures.

We all die, we all get sick, we all feel hunger and lust and pain, and therefore human life is consistent from one generation to the other. We all – most of us, anyway – want connections with other people and spend our lives looking for them.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.

I love my friends and my past, and it’s made me who I am.

I didn’t mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.

To be social is to be forgiving.

As I’m traveling around, I meet many small children. And when I look at a small and think how we’ve harmed this beautiful planet since I was that age, I feel a kind of desperation, anger, shame. I don’t know what I feel; I just don’t know what the emotion is.

After all, life hasn’t much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

How do I know about a man’s needs for a sex symbol? I’m a girl.

I hate violence, yes I do. It’s kind of a dilemma, huh?.

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

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it’s to have any meaning in this world – and stop being its apologist.

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s.

Sometimes, I’m very embarrassed.

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

When you really don’t like a guy, they’re all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they’re no longer interested.

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 think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don’t know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.

There’s a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more.

For me, often, there’s such a cloud of melancholia about knowing I’m going to have to leave my daughter on her own. I don’t know what age that is going to be, thank God. It just doubles me up in grief.

I love food.

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

This is love: the flowering of love is meditation.

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

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

Hear reason, or she’ll make you feel her.

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

We hunger to understand, so we invent myths about how we imagine the world is constructed – and they’re, of course, based upon what we know, which is ourselves and other animals. So we make up stories about how the world was hatched from a cosmic egg or created after the mating of cosmic deities or by some fiat of a powerful being.

As I get older, I tend to put more into family than I used to.

I think any man who lets a woman pick what he should wear… I mean, you gotta draw the line somewhere as a man. I see these guys, ‚My wife told me to wear this!‘ And I just shake my head.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

Ranking among the greatest Christmas movie classics, ‚It’s a Wonderful Life‘ tells a beautiful story about the priceless value of relationships.

A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.

Some like to think that a keen appreciation of art can actually make us better people – more just, more moral, more sensitive, more understanding. Perhaps that is true – in certain rare, isolated cases.