Henry Cabot Lodge Quotes

I was raised to believe that New England is the best place on the planet.

I consider myself a product of Alaska. The love and the debt that I feel to my home state - you always want your hometown to be the proudest of you, and so it's heartbreaking to hear people say snarky things.

Continuity is one of the things I like about New England.

If you ask me what am I, I might say 'I am a Californian,' and if George Bush were here, he would say 'I am a Texan.'

You know, I love the South.

Siberia is a state of mind.

I came back when I'd had a taste of other places and realized that I would never feel the same sense of connection to any place other than the Ozarks.

Every man has an idea, of course, that the State from which he comes possesses peculiar merit

In West Bengal when Sourav Ganguly is dropped from the team, the communists in that region become Bengalis and fight for him. Is this not regionalism?

I'm from the Southwest, and in the Southwest of France, you're not supposed to love Paris.

I have a lot of respect for New England.

I'm proud to be from the North-East.

Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.

Although I'm a Scot, I'd be proud to be called a Scouser.

What is Love compared with holing out before your opponent?

True love believes everything, and bears everything, and trusts everything.

Love is a worn-out word. People love their cat, they love their house. I've never been in love with anyone but myself.

The reason that ego and love are not compatible comes down to this: you cannot take your ego into the unknown, where love wants to lead. If you follow love, your life will become uncertain, and the ego craves certainty.

Love consists in leaving the loved one space to be themselves while providing the security within which that self may flourish.

Fill your heart with as much love as you can, and don't hold it in.

I know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems. And I'm going to talk about it everywhere I go. I know it isn't popular to talk about it in some circles today. I'm not talking about emotional bosh when I talk about love, I'm talking about a strong, demanding love.

Somehow the pain, the losses, the hurt, the bad, God is able to transform these into something they could have never been, icons and monuments of grace and love. It is the deep mystery how wounds and scars can become precious, or a ravaging and terrifying cross the essential symbol of relentless affection.” “Is it worth it?” whispered Tony. “Wrong question, son. There is no ‘it.’ The question is and has always been, ‘Are you worth it?’ and the answer is and always, ‘Yes!’

To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.

In the spiritual life there is no such thing as an indifference to love or hate.

In the end what matters is not how good we are but how good God is. Not how much we love Him but how much He loves us. And God loves us whoever we are, whatever we’ve done or failed to do, whatever we believe or can’t.