Pastoral Resources

When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

I love every bone in their heads.

Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.

I love working with young people, which is to me a big kick.

I'm the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

In love there are two things - bodies and words.

Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate.

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

No lies, just love.

I really just want to be warm yellow light that pours over everyone I love.

Love's an excuse to get hurt.

Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness.

I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.

Suddenly life has new meaning to me, there's beauty up above and things we never take notice of, you wake up suddenly you're in love.

Military officers from different countries, when they meet each other, tend to sort of fall in love, become mutual admiration societies, at the expense of realities.

My baseball career was a long, long initiation into a single secret: At the heart of all things is love.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.