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

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

I have known war as few men now living know it. It’s very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

I am for people. I can’t help it.

The peasant must always be helped technically, economically, morally and culturally. The guerrilla fighter will be a sort of guiding angel who has fallen into the zone, helping the poor always and bothering the rich as little as possible in the first phases of the war.

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

In the flush of love’s light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

We’re a blip in the existence of the universe, and we’re constantly trying to pull each other down. Not doing things to help each other.

To say that Christ is the term and motive force of evolution, to say that he manifests himself as ‚evolver,‘ is implicitly to recognize that he becomes attainable in and through the whole process of evolution.

People like music when they’re in love, but they don’t need it as much. You need music when you’re missing someone or you’re pining for someone or you’re forgetting someone or you’re trying to process what just happened.

Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.

Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I’m trying to say is I’m trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

Regarded zoologically, man is today an almost isolated figure in nature. In his cradle, he was less isolated.

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom – along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

I love singing. I love it, and it doesn’t feel like a chore. It’s an expression.

Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.

The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.

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

I think New York has evolved in my work just the way the city has.

I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.

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.

People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like – that’s a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one’s opponent.

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

Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion – towards ourselves and towards all living beings.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

Sometimes what works 40 years ago doesn’t work today.

I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

I was brought up to understand Darwin’s theory of evolution. I spent hours and hours in the Natural History Museum in London looking at the descriptions of how different kinds of animals had evolved, looking at the sequence of fossil bones looking gradually more and more and more and more like the modern fossil.

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

There have only been about a half dozen genuinely important events in the four-billion-year saga of life on Earth: single-celled life, multicelled life, differentiation into plants and animals, movement of animals from water to land, and the advent of mammals and consciousness.

The earth’s crust has not yet stopped heaving and plunging under our feet. Mountain ranges are still being thrust up on the horizon. Granites are still growing under the continental masses. Nor has the organic world ceased to produce new buds at the tips of its countless branches.

In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.

At the end of the day, we started playing football because we loved it.

When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.

The fame isn’t important to me. It’s a blessing to have. Having so many people that support me, that love me and listen to my music, is beautiful.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

Love is the most powerful thing in the world, and you know, what love brings is joy.

It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.