When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‚If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?‘ But… the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‚If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?‘

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

Sometimes I’ve been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.

North Americans don’t understand… that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.

Men want to make women happy.

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

Don’t tell your problems to people: eighty percent don’t care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.

It’s hard for anybody who’s been with me not to feel starved for affection when I’m making love to my ideas. Maybe it’s not meant for me to settle down and be married.

When I feel I’m doing too much, I do less if I can.

When we believe the best of people, we let go of each thing they do that is hurtful to us. And we choose to think things like, ‚I don’t believe they meant to hurt me.‘ ‚Maybe they’re having a bad day or don’t feel well.‘ ‚They probably don’t even realize how they sound.‘

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

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible.

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.

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.

When I worked on a magazine, I learned that there are many, many writers writing that can’t write at all; and they keep on writing all the cliches and bromides and 1890 plots, and poems about Spring and poems about Love, and poems they think are modern because they are done in slang or staccato style, or written with all the ‚i’s‘ small.

Your friend is your needs answered.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

I’ve never dropped anyone I believed in.

It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other.

Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

But there is a difference between cozying up to power and being close to power.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

I have an urge to communicate. I think I’m a change from what it would be like dating a normal guy who doesn’t talk too much.

Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.

And know that I am with you always; yes, to the end of time.

The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

When you stop caring what people think, you lose your capacity for connection. When you’re defined by it, you lose our capacity for vulnerability.

When the negative thoughts come – and they will; they come to all of us – it’s not enough to just not dwell on it… You’ve got to replace it with a positive thought.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

When you are young, you cannot imagine being disabled. You imagine you would conquer it somehow. As I’ve got older, I can imagine it; I can see how life narrows in. I feel compassion for my mother now.

I’ve had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.

Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.

We have a great group of guys that really sacrifice every night, care about each other, and try to play the right away.

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

A friend is nothing but a known enemy.

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.

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

There is something about building up a comradeship – that I still believe is the greatest of all feats – and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It’s the intense effort, the giving of everything you’ve got. It’s really a very pleasant sensation.

A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.

Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It’s also the dangerous part and it’s an ugly emotion that hurts.

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

When I say I’m going to take care of a woman, I don’t just mean physically or sexually or romantically. I’m going to take care of her emotionally and spiritually. I’m going to take care of her in all ways. I take a lot of pride in that today.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

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

Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

The average Hollywood film star’s ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.