Really showing love requires more than just words.

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

What keeps me motivated is love and passion.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

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.

He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.

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

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

My mom and I have always been there for each other. We had some tough times, but she was always there for me.

I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.

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

We can’t form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

When your mother asks, ‚Do you want a piece of advice?‘ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

Dividers seek to make themselves look or feel better by making others feel worse. They damage relationships, fracture teams and organizations, and create havoc in people’s lives.

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

I think you can judge from somebody’s actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there’s a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.

In God’s family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

All you need is love.

To be able to throw one’s self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman’s smile – that is happiness.

There’s love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we’re alone in our heads.

I love to play. And fortunately, I don’t know a lot of musicians that suck. I know a bunch of really good ones, and they’re always up for playing.

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.

The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we’ll fail, and sometimes we’ll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you’ll find support.

It’s very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.

Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.

Counsel with your parents is a privilege at any age.

Trying to meet new women, it’s always a little more difficult as opposed to calling somebody I knew that’s single and trying to rebuild that connection.

If you like it you should enjoy it! Moderation in everything. If there’s things you really love, you should enjoy. You get one life, so you should enjoy it.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

I would be married, but I’d have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

Within one’s own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.

Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

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.

We’re not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.

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

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone… Bad food is fake food… food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people’s ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives.

Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people’s kids than I did my own.

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

Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.