We conceal it from ourselves in vain – we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

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

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

When you face a ‚performance‘ that might provoke the ‚I’m scared‘ response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It’s more fun than ‚Dancing with the Stars!‘

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you.

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

We do not judge the people we love.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer. You’re gay, you’re sick, you’re nervous or whatever.

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.

I’m really looking forward to seeing what life brings to me.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

I think Bible principles are principles for life.

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

My mom and I have always been there for each other. We had some tough times, but she was always there for me.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

If you look at the movie ‚Belly,‘ I identify with Sincere the most. I am a gangster. I love my lady to death. I’m not in the game for the wrong reasons. I’m not in the game for the glory. I’m in the game to survive so the people that I love could be straight. I’m a highly intelligent individual.

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

I’m a human being and I fall in love and sometimes I don’t have control of every situation.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

Once I knew only darkness and stillness… my life was without past or future… but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

I feel, as a songwriter, it’s one of the hardest things to do – to sit down and say how you feel.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

Love is the one wild card.

Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar… Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.

I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It’s a natural process.

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

By the time you’ve reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.

Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it’s a good place that we’re all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.

It could be if I fight in front of one person or one million people. It’s still the same emotions.

I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go – that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.

The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn’t really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn’t going to compose Beethoven’s Fifth.

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man’s nature – opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

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.

Sometimes, you might meet somebody that you love that’s turning into a ‚they.‘ My key is invite them to Miami and take them to the ocean and let them jump off the boat in the ocean, on the sand bar, and cleanse off and pray and then go take a shower, and hopefully the ‚they‘ is out of you.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.