With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.

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

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.

I am not afraid… I was born to do this.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

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

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Peace begins with a smile.

There are no rules when it comes to love.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits – they may still be very distant – God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

Me is a common sense man. That mean when me explain things, me explain it in a very simple way; that mean if I explain it to a baby, the baby will understand too, you know.

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

I hesitate to use a pathologizing label, but underneath the so-called narcissistic personality is definitely shame and the paralyzing fear of being ordinary.

There’s plenty about God that I don’t understand and can’t explain. But I come back to my core belief that God is good, that He’s for us.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

I played a lot of tough clubs in my time. Once a guy in one of those clubs wanted to bet me $10 that I was dead. I was afraid to bet.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot – and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.

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

You want to do good things, and once you’ve done a couple of good things in a row, you think ‚Well gee, let’s not mess this up.‘ But I am lucky at this point that I have something I really love to do, and it completely holds my attention. I never feel frustrated by it.

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.

The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

Right now I’m just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.

The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.

God to me is love.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

I used to have nightmares that they would put ‚He played Ted‘ on my tombstone.

Time travel was once considered scientific heresy, and I used to avoid talking about it for fear of being labelled a ‚crank.‘

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

It makes me sad when I find sisters who aren’t joyful. They might smile, but with just a smile they could be flight attendants!

I feel matured in a way that I’m happy about. I’m at this other stage in my life – and it’s not a bad thing at all.

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.

It has been hard for me to find it, but I have found love.

I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and… I believe in miracles.

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don’t mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.