Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

The way to know life is to love many things.

No matter how beautiful a woman might be, you’re always threatened by certain… You’re always threatened by other women, period.

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

We’re all put on this earth to walk in His image, the Master.

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Start with God – the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

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.

Love is a state of being.

I hope my own children never have to fight a war.

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?

Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

I have finally decided to write my book on the spiritual life. I mean to put down as simply as possible the sort of ascetical or mystical teaching that I have been living and preaching so long. I call it ‚Le Milieu Divin,‘ but I am being careful to include nothing esoteric and the minimum of explicit philosophy.

God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.

And die of nothing but a rage to live.

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.

Fame may go by and – so long, I’ve had you.

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I’m not leading them to some false God or something like that.

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

I love stuff from the Holy Land. It makes me feel blessed.

I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief… All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

My mother loved children – she would have given anything if I had been one.

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

Love is trembling happiness.

God may be subtle, but he isn’t plain mean.

It doesn’t matter where you come from, what you have or don’t have, what you lack, or what you have too much of. But all you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

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

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

The great question of our time is, ‚Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?‘

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

I went through every emotion with tryna pursue what I’m doing, you know what I mean? And I think what’s gon‘ separate whoever’s gon go for something, that you ain’t gon‘ quit.

Every man’s reputation proceeds from those of his own household.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with Me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

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

We moralize among ruins.

Every man is his own hell.

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open.

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.

I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.