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.

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

‚Harry Potter‘ gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.

Great loves too must be endured.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

I think ‚The Color Purple‘ is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

My husband is everything to me and without him it’s just not the same.

Some animals utter a loud cry. Some are silent, and others have a voice, which in some cases may be expressed by a word; in others, it cannot. There are also noisy animals and silent animals, musical and unmusical kinds, but they are mostly noisy about the breeding season.

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.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

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

I remember when I was in high school I didn’t have a new dress for each special occasion. The girls would bring the fact to my attention, not always too delicately. The boys, however, never bothered with the subject. They were my friends, not because of the size of my wardrobe but because they liked me.

Love is not consolation. It is light.

The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but the Pope has the duty, in Christ’s name, to remind the rich to help the poor, to respect them, to promote them.

Marriage is the most wonderful thing ever.

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.

I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it’s OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

When we’re falling in love or out of it, that’s when we most need a song that says how we feel. Yeah, I write a lot of songs about boys. And I’m very happy to do that.

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.

I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I’m a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself – all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.

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

I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world… Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, ‚I love you.‘

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.

You send a boy to school in order to make friends – the right sort.

Everybody, to some extent, manipulates. Even children learn to cry when they want something. There are all kinds of subtle things we do to get others to follow our lead, not bother us, and so on.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

We’re all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.

To be loved is very demoralizing.

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.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

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

If I’m not in love, if I’m not with a long-term companion, I cannot be happy.

Confidentially, the type of male I find most enjoyable for a friend is one who has enough fire and assurance to speak up for his convictions.

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

I don’t really know that much about love, it turns out.

I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.

Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops… If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.

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

Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that’s all. So we direct our values to material things.

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.