Love is an attempt at penetrating another being but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old the incurable the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.

Accept that all of us can be hurt that all of us can and surely will at times fail. Other vulnerabilities like being embarrassed or risking love can be terrifying too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst take the risk.

If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude then animals are better off than a lot of humans.

I love being black in America and especially being black in Hollywood.

All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow being repressed for so many millennia they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.

For one human being to love another that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks the ultimate the last test and proof the work for which all other work is but preparation.

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

Guilt for being rich and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.