We do not judge the people we love.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

You can’t have it all, all at once. Who – man or woman – has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!

If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours.

How do I know about a man’s needs for a sex symbol? I’m a girl.

I have no hostility to nature, but a child’s love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that’s not so bad; but New York City?

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘

People like to hear the word ‚love.‘

I’ve learned that we all change constantly. It’s rare to find that person who is growing with you in the same way at the same time, who encourages you to grow.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

I’ve never had a dislike for men. I’ve been badly treated by some. But I’ve been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.

We loved with a love that was more than love.

What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

I make decisions all day, so it’s nice for a woman like me to go to dinner and have the man take the menu and say, ‚Let me order.‘ Other women would be offended by that, but I’m like, ‚Good. Because I can’t make one more decision today.‘ I want someone to rub my feet without being asked.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

The mind of a 19-year-old is very different from the mind of a 26-year-old. You grow. You get into better relationships. You experience more, meet more people, better people. But when you’re in a dark hole at an earlier point in your life – you write about the mindset you’re in at that moment.

Single life is so overrated.

It’s fun to be hopelessly in love. It’s dangerous, but it’s fun.

Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

All religions must be tolerated… for every man must get to heaven in his own way.

There was one incident at a movie theater where my girl got mad at these guys who were talking behind us. I never looked back there, but she was like, ‚Will you all just shut up!‘ And I just got up and moved three rows in front. She was like, ‚What are you doing?!‘ I was like, ‚You better get up here! I don’t play the fighting games.‘

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don’t accept it, it’s their loss.

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.

I am a bit of a solitude person – a solitary personality. I like being on my own. I don’t have any major friendships or relationships with people.

Treat your children like the blessings they are or don’t have them at all.

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

I don’t know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens.

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

We hand folks over to God’s mercy, and show none ourselves.

If you get down and quarell everyday, you’re saying prayers to the devil, I say.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.

I try to teach through my opinions, through my speeches, how wrong it is to judge people on the basis of what they look like, color of their skin, whether they’re men or women.

Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.

What keeps me motivated is love and passion.

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

I knew through the surgeries that he was on my side and that this wasn’t something where I was gonna feel less of a woman, because my husband wasn’t gonna let that happen.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

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.

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

I don’t have to ‚freedom-kiss‘ my wife when what I really want to do is French-kiss her.

Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.