There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

In each soul, God loves and partly saves the whole world which that soul sums up in an incommunicable and particular way.

When one travels around the world, one notices to what an extraordinary degree human nature is the same, whether in India or America, in Europe or Australia.

If you wished to be loved, love.

A friend doesn’t go on a diet because you are fat.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.

I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don’t know if it’s possible forever and ever.

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Single life is so overrated.

My mother taught children to love to dance.

I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

In whatever adulation you get, there’s truth and there’s not truth. And wherever they dog you, and they say it was horrible – there’s truth and there’s not truth. It’s human nature to like to read the adulation more.

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

When you’re supposed to be close and friends in the film, the moment you’re talking as friends off the set, it makes it that much better when you’re filming.

I know that a large part of my fan base is gay. They’ve shown me love from the start. I mean in this industry, everyone from my glam people to my dancers are gay. You can’t be homophobic in this line of work – I’m a pop star!

When you’re a little kid, you don’t see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.

For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don’t think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I’m with them.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I’d be a damn‘ fool if they weren’t.

Love is trembling happiness.

When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it’s been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can’t stop thinking about.

Fame may go by and – so long, I’ve had you.

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 we give away is the only love we keep.

I’m doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

If you cry over a guy, then your friends can’t date him. It can’t even be considered.

Smiles are the language of love.

Man seems to be the only animal whose food soils him, making necessary much washing and shield-like bibs and napkins. Moles living in the earth and eating slimy worms are yet as clean as seals or fishes, whose lives are one perpetual wash.

Sheep, like people, are ungovernable when hungry.

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?

It’s fun to be hopelessly in love. It’s dangerous, but it’s fun.

Marriage is the most wonderful thing ever.

I don’t think there’s an option for me to fall in love slowly or at medium speed. I either do, or I don’t.

I’m good friends with Jay Leno, good friends with Ed O’Neill, Melanie Fiona and Russell Simmons.

Gays are some of the nicest, kindest, most loving people in the world.

It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

I don’t want enemies. I want friends, and I want them in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and loving whoever they want to.

The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

I love stuff from the Holy Land. It makes me feel blessed.

Friends applaud, the comedy is over.

Delhi means everything to me. This city has given me everything, and I love it.

Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that justifies this goodness and this love?

However weak we are, however poor, however little our faith, or however small our grace may be, our names are still written on His heart; nor shall we lose our share in Jesus‘ love.

Grief is the price we pay for love.