To abandon oneself to principles is really to die – and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.

In war, you win or lose, live or die – and the difference is just an eyelash.

To be able to throw one’s self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman’s smile – that is happiness.

Whether a person is straight or gay, Republican, Democrat, good person, not a good person, they’re all welcome, because to me, church is a place you’re supposed to get healed and whole and loved.

It’s really easy to have a nice philosophy about openness, but moving the world in that direction is a different thing. It requires both understanding where you want to go and being pragmatic about getting there.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since, when death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world’s phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.

It is not only the living who are killed in war.

I’m the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren’t no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn’t know about them.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

We need to have business leaders who live by deep, strong principles.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

My wife and I are very affectionate.

All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

In hip-hop, there’s not a lot of love. There’s not a lot of love being spread. It’s always like ‚I’m stuntin‘ on you raps, or I’m better than you raps.‘ It’s not a lot of ‚Yo man, I idolize you raps.‘

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life… Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

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

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.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

Being is the great explainer.

I’m not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

Risk is a part of God’s game, alike for men and nations.

The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies – or else? The chain reaction of evil – hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars – must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

For me, my secularism is, India first. I say, the philosophy of my party is ‚Justice to all. Appeasement to none.‘ This is our secularism.

I would never win an award for not loving pizza.

I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age. Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.

To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.

You may be able to read Bernard Shaw’s plays, you may be able to quote Shakespeare or Voltaire or some new philosopher; but if you in yourself are not intelligent, if you are not creative, what is the point of this education?

If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.

Ordinary morality is innate in my view.

The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.

We moralize among ruins.

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

To be loved is very demoralizing.

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.