I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.
Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being.
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
Men are what their mothers made them.
Either men will learn to live like brothers or they will die like beasts.
Men rise from one ambition to another: first they seek to secure themselves against attack and then they attack others.
I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.
I took the fear of marriage from my parents' relationship because I didn't want to end up in a relationship like that whereas my brothers and sisters learnt a lesson from it and made sure they didn't carry it on into their own marriages.
I would like it to be known that I have decided not to marry Group Capt. Peter Townsend. Mindful of the church's teaching that Christian marriage is indissoluble and conscious of my duty to the Commonwealth I have resolved to put these considerations before any others.
My older sister was at the cusp of new wave and I had older brothers from my father's first marriage who were rock 'n' roll guys so I was exposed to a lot of popular culture.
My argument is simple which is that for several thousand years in Western civilization marriage has been the union of one man and one woman. Research is overwhelming that children need mothers and fathers.
It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying it's separating himself from all the others.
When we ask for love we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice... and begging or pleading for love.
Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.
So long as we love we serve so long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable and no man is useless while he has a friend.
The more I think about it the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.
If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment or an enlarged egotism.
Those whom we can love we can hate to others we are indifferent.
A heart is not judged by how much you love but by how much you are loved by others.
A father may turn his back on his child brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies husbands may desert their wives wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.
Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.
Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.