One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

There are two kinds of people in this world. ‚I‘ people and ‚we‘ people. I’ve always tried to be a ‚we‘ person.

My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

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

Alimony – the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

How much better it would be if all could be more aware of God’s providence and love and express that gratitude to Him.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

My family is very good about visiting me, and other friends as well.

It used to be the case, like you’d switch jobs, and then maybe you wouldn’t keep in touch with all the people that you knew from that old job, just because it was too hard. But one of the things that Facebook does is it makes it really easy to just stay in touch with all these people.

Only the really plain people know about love – the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.

Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it’s about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that all science is a tool, and we use our tools not to actualise what we know, but to implement how we feel.

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

She would have thrived as a grandmother. I know how much she would have contributed to their lives, and I am sad they will miss out on that.

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

People like to hear the word ‚love.‘

I was never a boy magnet at school. There was always the girl all the guys liked and wanted to date, but it was never me.

I don’t try and be dark, but there are obviously darker emotions that I want to capture sometimes.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

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.

I dote on his very absence.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

They died hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

The public doesn’t mind people living together without being married, providing they don’t overdo it.

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

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

Women don’t try to use me.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

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

And if you’re horrible to me I’m going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it. That’s how I operate.

It is better to be deceived by one’s friends than to deceive them.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

When the kids are laughing in the audience, I tear up, I’m so happy I did a nice thing.

I just got to feel that whoever I marry has some real regard for me.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

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

I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.

It could be if I fight in front of one person or one million people. It’s still the same emotions.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

An onion can make people cry but there’s never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.

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.

All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.

I don’t think it’s possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.

There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other.

Love and desire are the spirit’s wings to great deeds.

If I ever felt like I was getting lost in the hurricane that was storming around Nirvana, I’d just go back to Virginia.

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.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Ranking among the greatest Christmas movie classics, ‚It’s a Wonderful Life‘ tells a beautiful story about the priceless value of relationships.