We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

I don’t want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I’ve never met. I want to go on living even after my death!

For some reason, I have better luck when I work with women. I guess I have a good sense of sisterhood.

The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily, and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society.

I live in a crazy time.

I have observed that society in general always seems to honor its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.

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

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

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

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don’t live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

We need to show mercy. I mean, because as much mercy as you show people, that’s the mercy you’re going to be receiving.

‚Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

My mami and papi love my music. They’re always listening to the radio waiting for one of my songs to come on. And when it does, they turn up the volume – and turn it back down when it’s over.

I’m all about peace. I’m all about unity. I’m all about love.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

We must begin seeing other creatures as equal. Existence makes us all equal.

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

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!

My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I’ve had. And now that I’m in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won’t be half as much anger as there was.

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

I don’t want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

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

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish.

Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?… It is necessary to accompany them with mercy.

You see, at the end of the day, my most important title is still ‚mom-in-chief.‘ My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.

I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.

As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.

T stands for being nice. T stands for manners. T stands for being polite.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

I’m such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.