And God said love your enemy and I obeyed him and loved myself.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace. Where there is hatred let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy.

I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

What barrier is there that love cannot break?

When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.

From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved. It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both: but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.

To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbor as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality.

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.

...the individual ceases to be himself; he adopts entirely the kind of personality offered to him by cultural patterns; and he therefore becomes exactly as all others are and as they expect him to be...The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not feel alone and anxious any more. But the price he pays, however, is high; it is the loss of his self.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

I do nothing upon myself, and yet am mine own executioner.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Each of us carries his own life-form—an indeterminable form which cannot be superseded by any other.

Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.

It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.

In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.