Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

The peoples of this world must unite or they will perish.

The lie is a condition of life.

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

The Scoutmaster who is a hero to his boys holds a powerful lever to their development but at the same time brings a great responsibility on himself. They are quick enough to see the smallest characteristic about him, whether it be a virtue or a vice.

Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes, Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn’t take much to make us flip back into monkeys again.

I love being a dad. I just love it.

It’s probably the worst feeling in the world, when you’re deeply and madly in love with a woman and you know she’s not feeling you the same way, and you don’t know why.

Treat your children like the blessings they are or don’t have them at all.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

Whenever something went wrong when I was young – if I had a pimple or if my hair broke – my mom would say, ‚Sister mine, I’m going to make you some soup.‘ And I really thought the soup would make my pimple go away or my hair stronger.

Sometimes, you might meet somebody that you love that’s turning into a ‚they.‘ My key is invite them to Miami and take them to the ocean and let them jump off the boat in the ocean, on the sand bar, and cleanse off and pray and then go take a shower, and hopefully the ‚they‘ is out of you.

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person’s life. God is in everyone’s life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else – God is in this person’s life. You can – you must – try to seek God in every human life.

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

We were born with a capacity to grow, love, marry, and form families.

Jesus is a divine guest inside of you all the time – one who loves, understands, sees and hears you. He wants to live in oneness with you… to be the centerpiece of everything you do.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, ‚Truth is the daughter of Time.‘

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

You are Mrs. Reagan because Mr. Reagan loves you with all his heart.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It’s one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.

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

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston, I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song, and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, ‚Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.‘

We loved with a love that was more than love.

I think I have had so much blessing – I’ve had my brother, who was brilliant – I think my family came closest to making a genius when they made my brother – Bailey was just all of that. He loved me.

I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and… I believe in miracles.

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even… knowledge, was foolproof.

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

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.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

When I think of the love I feel for each member of our family, I sense, to a slight degree, the love that our Heavenly Father bears for His children.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

My mom, she was a very, very soft woman. It was hard for her to yell or even curse. But when it came to fighting for her kids, she found a strength she didn’t always know she had.

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

The ‚Third World‘ is a term I don’t like very much because we’re all one world. I want people to know that the largest part of humanity is suffering.

Agape, the love of each one of us for the other, from the closest to the furthest, is in fact the only way that Jesus has given us to find the way of salvation and of the Beatitudes.

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

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.

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.