The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.

We must accept what science tells us, that man was born from the earth. But, more logical than the scientists who lecture us, we must carry this lesson to its conclusion: that is to say, accept that man was born entirely from the world – not only his flesh and bones but his incredible power of thought.

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

I think I lived those years very impersonally. It was almost as though I had erected someone outside myself who was the president’s wife. I was lost somewhere deep down inside myself. That is the way I felt and worked until I left the White House.

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work.

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.

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.

If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England – you couldn’t have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

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.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

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

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

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

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.

I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures – be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred.

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

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.

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

Logically, harmony must come from the heart… Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.

I’m really trying to dredge up what one might call intellectual and moral material. For example, when do you realize that you are an American? What age does that happen to you? When do you realize what religion your parents practice? When does it all become conscious? I was interested in exploring all of that.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

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

And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I think, I don’t think anyone in my family would really feel I’d done them an injustice by saying that. We didn’t see many people. There were many books. It was as if I wanted to get away from home.

The only big things I’ve purchased are my dad’s heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.

I believe when it comes to love, there’s something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don’t think I have a pattern.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

All things truly wicked start from innocence.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

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

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

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you – gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.

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

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.