Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

Don’t create more enemies than you take out by some immoral act.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

The march of the human mind is slow.

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and ‚superlive,‘ as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so.

From the dust of the earth, from the common elementary fund, the Creator has made Homo sapiens. From the same material he has made every other creature, however noxious and insignificant to us. They are earth-born companions and our fellow mortals.

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.

To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

I know I’m talented, but I wasn’t put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but it’s not where it begins and ends.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.

My whole life and my whole career, even through my music, I tell people: let’s unify; let’s show more love.

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

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

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‚I’ll buy a million dollars‘ worth of love.‘ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

Really showing love requires more than just words.

It’s important to love in hip hop.

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

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age. Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

Dear friends, we may well sing to our Beloved when it is near the time of our departure. It draws near, and as it approaches, we must not dread it, but rather thank God for it.

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work.

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

Speak low, if you speak love.

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land.

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

World belongs to humanity, not this leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity.

My audience went, ‚Wait, why is she singing jazz? What’s going on?‘ And then they went, ‚Oh, because she can. Because she loves it.‘ And jazz, a music invented by the African-American community, is the greatest art form, I believe, to have ever come out of this country.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to the universe.

Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers.

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

If every man loves his mother, he’s going to treat the ladies right, with love and respect.

I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don’t know if it’s possible forever and ever.

Foe means enemy. Now, will we have differences of opinion with the Russians? Yes. Will they get mad at us from time to time, and we get mad at them? That’s part of the normal diplomatic relations.

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.

I haven’t had that one great love, which is good. I don’t want that to be in the past – I want it to be in the future.

Anywhere I go, there is always an incredible crowd that follows me. In Rome, as I land at the airport, even the men kiss me. I love Rome.

My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I’ve had. And now that I’m in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won’t be half as much anger as there was.

I do not believe we will have a war with Iran.

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what’s in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

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.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

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

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.