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

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

There is no love of life without despair of life.

For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

In retrospect, I do think it’s fair to say that we were overly idealistic and focused on more of the good parts of what connecting people and giving people a voice can bring.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.

What I’ve discovered is that in art, as in music, there’s a lot of truth-and then there’s a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It’s the moment that the audience falls in love.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. Christ teaches that God is love.

It is easier to be critical than correct.

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

They do not love that do not show their love.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

There’s only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I’ll get married again.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

It’s not possible to stop love.

What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

Reputation is the cornerstone of power. Through reputation alone you can intimidate and win; once it slips, however, you are vulnerable, and will be attacked on all sides. Make your reputation unassailable.

If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours.

Who, being loved, is poor?

I’m happiest with my family around me.

He chose to honor us with His priesthood. So we honor Him by honoring His priesthood – both its power and those who bear it.

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted… but to weigh and consider.

The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.

‚Harry Potter‘ gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.

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.

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

I would never win an award for not loving pizza.

I’ve been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she’ll kill me.

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain – we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

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.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates – which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing. Today you are looking at the Taliban or ISIS; tomorrow you might be looking at another name.

WWE is a space where I thrived, and I loved, and I still do. I love connecting with an audience; that is the greatest thing about going back to WWE.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.

Palestinians have no wealth or power.

Women. They are a complete mystery.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

He didn’t come out of my belly, but my God, I’ve made his bones, because I’ve attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I’m so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

I don’t keep people around me that aren’t family. You don’t get to stay. Unless you’re eating at the table with us, you’re not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.

I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.

There’s nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It’s a thing no married man knows anything about.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.

Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.

Racial prejudice, anti-Semitism, or hatred of anyone with different beliefs has no place in the human mind or heart.

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

Sadat was a great and good man, and his most bitter and dangerous enemies were people who were obsessed with hatred for his peaceful goals.