We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what’s in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it’s been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can’t stop thinking about.

We love things we love what they are.

I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.

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

I love America, it’s a much more permissive place.

India does not need to become anything else. India must become only India. This is a country that once upon a time was called the golden bird.

Do not rebuke mockers, or they will hate you; rebuke the wise, and they will love you.

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

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.

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

Tell me I have to be somewhere, and I’ll be there 20 minutes early and stay there longer than anybody else. You hold up a lot of people if you’re not on time.

Where love is, there God is also.

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 should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

Jesus is a divine guest inside of you all the time – one who loves, understands, sees and hears you. He wants to live in oneness with you… to be the centerpiece of everything you do.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

I don’t let even a day go by wherein I don’t give at 100 per cent.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else – I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.

Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society. Ever since intelligent beings began to be in contact, and consequently in friction, they have felt the need to guard themselves against each other’s encroachments.

Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

There’s a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more.

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

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!‘

I will not leave South Africa, nor will I surrender. Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant action can freedom be won. The struggle is my life. I will continue fighting for freedom until the end of my days.

I don’t set out to write about spirituality; I am free to do something different every time.

I’ve told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn’t kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.

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.

I was 14, and I fell in love with Pink Floyd.

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

I think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas… cultures… and systems of thought, we have, perforce, developed a more sophisticated notion of what the word ‚freedom‘ means than I see much evidence of in America.

When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection, love is born.

This young century will be liberty’s century.

The only big things I’ve purchased are my dad’s heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

I have an immense amount of respect for acting. I’ve always loved movies and was always fascinated by movie-making. But to become an actor, I wanted to commit myself.

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

Punk is musical freedom. It’s saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster’s terms, ‚nirvana‘ means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that’s pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.

Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.

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

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

When I get on a roll with something, it’s really hard for me to put it down unfinished.

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.