The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

My wife has about everything I can think of.

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature’s gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?

‚Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

We are not actually equal – humanity – if we are not allowed to freely love one another.

The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

I believe when it comes to love, there’s something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don’t think I have a pattern.

Part of me feels you can’t say you were truly in love if it didn’t last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that’s when I’ll know it’s real – because it lasted.

Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

If I held you any closer I would be on the other side of you.

There’s nothing hippie about my picture of Christ. The Gospels paint a picture of a very demanding, sometimes divisive love, but love it is.

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

I’m not a real movie star. I’ve still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

When I get married, it’ll be no secret.

The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

We teach that God’s love for His children is infinite.

I absolutely adore Christmas.

We’re all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.

No rapper in the world from Jay-Z to Tupac to Biggie has 100 percent love on everything they do.

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider… the riders contend for its possession.

You can’t be in love with a Google search.

The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.

Speak low, if you speak love.

Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.

The sadness of the women’s movement is that they don’t allow the necessity of love. See, I don’t personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God’s divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego’s insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you.

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. Christ teaches that God is love.

I’m all about peace. I’m all about unity. I’m all about love.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

I never thought I’d have children; I never thought I’d be in love, I never thought I’d meet the right person. Having come from a broken home – you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don’t look for them.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

My mother fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56. She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold them in her arms. But my other children will never have the chance to know her and experience how loving and gracious she was.

Oh, my mama was awesome. Very strict, overreligious, loved the Lord, loved rules. But she had to be that way because of where we were growing up, the neighborhood I was from.

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies – or else? The chain reaction of evil – hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars – must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it’s with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.

I know love is the answer.