To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

I make friends faster and easier than journalists.

True friends stab you in the front.

I am radically, insanely, nutty in love with Jesus!

I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.

There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.

The ‚kingdom of Heaven‘ is a condition of the heart – not something that comes ‚upon the earth‘ or ‚after death.‘

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

No man wants to settle down. It happens. Eventually you’re going to bump into somebody that makes you go, ‚Hmm, I don’t mind seeing this person every day.‘

Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.

When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.

I’m happiest with my family around me.

I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

When I have a terrible need of – shall I say the word – religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.

I tend to believe that audiences are relatively well-balanced people.

God’s first line of defense – and offense – for every situation is prayer.

Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

There are two great forces, God’s force of good and the devil’s force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don’t understand.

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

Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston, I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song, and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, ‚Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.‘

The reason children accept discipline from their parents is because they know their parents love them.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

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.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them. But if you can go through life without it, that’s OK, too. It’s whatever suits you.

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.

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

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.

This is love: the flowering of love is meditation.

I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it’s absolutely true.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America’s really large shadow and that’s not all that bad.

I love sleep; it’s my favorite.

Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.

I don’t know what’s better gettin‘ laid or gettin‘ paid.

Is it not important to find out how to listen not only to what is being said but to everything – to the noise in the streets, to the chatter of birds, to the noise of the tramcar, to the restless sea, to the voice of your husband, to your wife, to your friends, to the cry of a baby?

Christmas is the perfect time to celebrate the love of God and family and to create memories that will last forever. Jesus is God’s perfect, indescribable gift. The amazing thing is that not only are we able to receive this gift, but we are able to share it with others on Christmas and every other day of the year.

I don’t think I would be interested in the climate at all if I had been like everyone else.

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories – and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.

Our faith is released as we say, pray and do the Word.

The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little.

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over… is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

I just think that trusting God means we’re going to have unanswered questions, and God is so much bigger than us, we’re never going to understand them all.

In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.