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

I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I’ve learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, ‚cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.

I was 14, and I fell in love with Pink Floyd.

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

My experiences in life are getting bigger and better. The more stuff I do, the more stuff I talk about – having kids, traveling, going through relationship problems, dealing with things in my own family. All that stuff builds character.

Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.

I’ve had no contact with my daughter for years. That’s her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don’t want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.

Any man who doesn’t love his mama can’t be no friend of mine.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

I boldly assert, in fact I think I know, that a lot of friendships and connections absolutely depend upon a sort of shared language, or slang. Not necessarily designed to exclude others, this can establish a certain comity and, even after a long absence, re-establish it in a second.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Love can do much, but duty more.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

Without Cambodia, I may never have become a mother. Part of my heart is and will always be in this country. And part of this country is always with me: Maddox.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

Single life is so overrated.

We want justice, but at the same time, we gotta love and come together and bring unity, and I feel it’s gonna happen.

The kindness that’s been shown to me, by doctors as well as my family and my friends, it’s really saved my life.

Indeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.

We will always be a family. Always.

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

Exceptionally hard decisions can deplete your energy to the point at which you finally cave in. If you mentally crumble and degenerate into negative thinking, you’ll magnify the problem to the point where it can haunt you.

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

Many churches today have special programs for people who are grieving, and these can be very helpful.

Life’s too short to deal with other people’s insecurities.

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

When you really don’t like a guy, they’re all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they’re no longer interested.

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.

I’ve never been a boyfriend kind of girl.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

Then, when I’m in these relationships with people who are also creative, or creative in their own way, what happens is the attraction is initially there and it’s all unicorns and rainbows. And then they hate me.

It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend’s folly.

Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

Really, who you are is defined by the people who you know – not even the people that you know, but the people you spend time with and the people that you love and the people that you work with. I guess we show your friends in your profile, but that’s kind of different from the information you put in your profile.

In married life three is company and two none.

I think we all change each other’s paths. I don’t know which law idea that is in physics, but I don’t think any of us can live without affecting one another.

I hate to see anybody sink. I hate to see anybody lose their dream, lose their home, something like that.

If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

My mother taught children to love to dance.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

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.

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

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

Assuming if there’s such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?

I want to marry Arline because I love her – which means I want to take care of her. That is all there is to it. I want to take care of her. I am anxious for the responsibilities and uncertainties of taking care of the girl I love.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

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.