People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.

The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.

A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.

The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one’s own religion.

The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

In the book of Gaga, fame is in your heart, fame is there to comfort you, to bring you self-confidence and worth whenever you need it.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.

Shakespeare – I was very influenced – still am – by Shakespeare. I couldn’t believe that a white man in the 16th century could so know my heart.

One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

Oh, this base heart of ours! Hath it not enough tinder in it to set on fire the course of nature? If a spark do but fall into it, any one of our members left to itself would dishonour Christ, deny the Lord that bought us, and turn back into perdition.

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.

The Welsh people have a talent for acting that one does not find in the English. The English lack heart.

False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

Once I knew only darkness and stillness… my life was without past or future… but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.

A woman’s heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart’s the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.

The heart is forever inexperienced.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

The fact is that when you do something from your heart, you leave a heart print.

I had a soft-spot in my heart for Ronald Reagan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth.

A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace marked on the heart of the element by the psychical convergence of the universe upon itself.