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

Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.

The heart is forever inexperienced.

Eating is so intimate. It’s very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you’re inviting a person into your life.

So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.

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

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

There’s nothing better than having a baby. I’ve always loved children. I used to work summers at the YMCA and be in charge of, like, 30 preschool kids. I knew that when I had a child, I’d be overwhelmed, and it’s true… I can’t tell you how much my attitude has changed since we’ve got Frances. Holding my baby is the best drug in the world.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.

Everybody loves you when you’re six foot in the ground.

Don’t say I hate institutionalised religion – rather than saying I hate those things, which I do not, what I’m saying is that perhaps there is a way of opening more doors, rather than closing so many.

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

Until you pray, God cannot work.

No rapper in the world from Jay-Z to Tupac to Biggie has 100 percent love on everything they do.

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it’s to have any meaning in this world – and stop being its apologist.

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

As a father and now a grandfather to three wonderful grandchildren, I know how magical the first year of a child’s life is but also how much hard work it takes. Being able to spend as much time as possible with your loved ones is absolutely vital, especially early on.

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation.

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

The first step in a person’s salvation is knowledge of their sin.

Still and all, why bother? Here’s my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

If God can’t get you to obey Him concerning your money, he won’t get to anything else you got.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Who, being loved, is poor?

There are many things that happen every day that we could murmur about if we let ourselves go there. But they really aren’t worth the effort it takes to get upset and gripe about it.

I would be married, but I’d have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

Vulnerability is about showing up and being seen. It’s tough to do that when we’re terrified about what people might see or think.

In this quest to seek and find God in all things, there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

Man can be understood only by ascending from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. In other words, he is first of all a cosmic problem.

You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.

I sincerely hope I can contribute to the progress there has been in relations between Jews and Catholics since the Second Vatican Council in a spirit of renewed collaboration.

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

Being young is a great advantage, since we see the world from a new perspective and we are not afraid to make radical changes.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.

I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.

Seemingly, man has learned to live without God, preoccupied and indifferent toward Him and concerned only about material security and pleasure.

Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.

People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

Lord sanctify us. Oh! That Thy spirit might come and saturate every faculty, subdue every passion, and use every power of our nature for obedience to God.

In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged.

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

I know a lot of people who wouldn’t be comfortable with everything that comes with being in a band as big as Nirvana. The thing that I don’t understand is not appreciating that simple gift of being able to play music.

The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

Not necessity, not desire – no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything – health, food, a place to live, entertainment – they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.