Quotes about the heart

Never was there, perhaps, more hollowness of heart than at present, and here in the United States. Genuine belief seems to have left us.

Walt Whitman

It may be true that the law cannot change the heart but it can restrain the heartless.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Selfish people, with no heart to speak of, have the best time of it.

Josh Billings

I think a handwritten letter – a lot of guys don’t realize what that means.It’s those little romantic touches that tell a lady, ‘I like a lot of people, but you have a special place in my heart.’

Betty White

I am not a political figure, nor do I want to be one; but I come with my heart.

Diana, Princess of Wales

I know it won’t be eight medals again. If you want to compare me to that, that’s your decision, not mine. I’m going out there to try to accomplish the things that I have in my mind and in my heart.

Michael Phelps

Comedy keeps the heart sweet; but we all know that there is wholesome refreshment for both mind and heart in an occasional climb among the pomps of the intellectual snow-summits built by Shakespeare and those others.

Mark Twain

Hungry for love, He looks at you. Thirsty for kindness, He begs of you. Naked for loyalty, He hopes in you. Homeless for shelter in your heart, He asks of you. Will you be that one to Him?

Mother Teresa

I joke about prominent men but at heart I believe in ’em. I do think there is time when traces of ‘dumbness’ crop up in official life but not crookedness.

Will Rogers

If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.

Mahatma Gandhi