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

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn’t they’d be married too.

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.

The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody’s ego, that’s it, game over.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

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

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

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

When people get married young, you don’t really understand the true definition of marriage.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

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

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves, you know, to put other people down, or make fun of them, or maybe make mockery of their work and that doesn’t make me feel good at all.

I was very worried about my mother, growing up – a lot. I do not want my children to be worried about me.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

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

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

Giving is true having.

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

If you’re nice to me I’ll never write anything bad about you.

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

I have noticed… that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.

I’ve… been accused of being involved with every man I’m ever seen with or worked with. Maybe I have, maybe I ain’t. I never tell if I have.

We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.

If someone is right for you, you’ll know it.

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.

There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other.

I’ve never been a boyfriend kind of girl.

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.

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

Compassion is the basis of morality.

I knew I was blessed with a gift of having both parents.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

A woman can’t be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can’t do it by herself.

He didn’t come out of my belly, but my God, I’ve made his bones, because I’ve attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I’m so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

As apostles and prophets, we are concerned not only for our children and grandchildren but for yours as well – and for each of God’s children.

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

Do not rebuke mockers, or they will hate you; rebuke the wise, and they will love you.

You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.

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

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it’s with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.

There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls, but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd. Of course, I expect this, but the knife still cuts.

God’s love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you’ve got to let it grow.

Sometimes you can’t prioritise family and you feel guilty.

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.

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.