Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

What women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

Jesus never mistreated anyone just because they mistreated Him. He confronted them in a spirit of gentleness and then continued to love them.

The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

Whenever you’re going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it – and sometimes three.

What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman, but what I also believe is that we have an obligation to make sure that gays and lesbians have the rights of citizenship that afford them visitations to hospitals, that allow them to be, to transfer property between partners, to make certain that they’re not discriminated on the job.

I’m sick of the tabloids‘ saying I obsess over guys. Why would you obsess over guys? They don’t like it.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer. You’re gay, you’re sick, you’re nervous or whatever.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

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.

Honoring the priesthood fosters respect, respect promotes reverence, and reverence invites revelation.

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

Counsel with your parents is a privilege at any age.

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.

‚Thank you‘ is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

My love is a hummingbird sitting that quiet moment on the bough, as the same cat crouches.

I always wanted to be loved.

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?… It is necessary to accompany them with mercy.

What one fool can understand, another can.

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

Most people are happy being average. Most are happy being faceless in a sea of faces.

It’s annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren’t they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

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.

Keeping score is for games, not friendships.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

I think what’s important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

I love life because what more is there?

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

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

I love the ending of a movie where two people end up together. Preferably if there’s rain and an airport or running or a confession of love.

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

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.

Like associates with like.

When you have good friends you’ve been around, every time they talk, you don’t give them your full attention. You don’t look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you’re listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.

I don’t compare myself to anyone else; I don’t make comments about anyone else because they do what feels right for them, and that’s okay by me.

Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.