Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.

I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

I, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture.

The assumption is that your personal life has to be a mess to create, but how much chaos can you allow in before it takes over?

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

Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

No matter what, I always make it home for Christmas. I love to go to my Tennessee Mountain Home and invite all of my nieces and nephews and their spouses and kids and do what we all like to do – eat, laugh, trade presents and just enjoy each other… and sometimes I even dress up like Santa Claus!

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

I believe in the Golden Rule – The Man with the Gold… Rules.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

Where there is love there is life.

The wisest hustler can suddenly fall for the worst tramp and lose all of his money on her. The hustler is aware of his own weaknesses and openings to con. This awareness is his edge.

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

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

What we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

I love Brad in every state.

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

My wife is already in Heaven.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced.

Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

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.

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

My wife thinks she’s better than me at puzzles. I haven’t given in on that one yet.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

When I think of the love I feel for each member of our family, I sense, to a slight degree, the love that our Heavenly Father bears for His children.

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

I knew I was blessed with a gift of having both parents.

To bear means to support the weight of that which is held. It is a sacred trust to bear the priesthood, which is the mighty power and authority of God.

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.

I married my best friend that happens to be a girl.

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.

History should be written as philosophy.

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

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