This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

You don’t want to live your life and then meet someone. You want to share your life with someone. That’s what I’m missing right now.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.

Ever since I first came here in 1963 to fight Henry Cooper, I have loved the people of England.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

My mom and I have always been there for each other. We had some tough times, but she was always there for me.

When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it’s been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can’t stop thinking about.

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain – we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston, I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song, and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, ‚Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.‘

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

Delhi means everything to me. This city has given me everything, and I love it.

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

People don’t want to hear about me having leather walls or gold toilets.

My father wasn’t a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher – one of those Victorians, hard as iron – but my dad was tough enough.

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we’re small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.

Love is only one of many passions.

I could fall in love with a sumo wrestler if he told stories and made me laugh. Obviously, it would be easier if someone was African-American and lived next door and went to the same church. Because then I wouldn’t have to translate.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss.

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.

Man’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.

Actually, you have to be a little bit in love with your leading man and vice versa. If you’re going to portray love, you have to feel it. You can’t do it any other way. But you don’t carry it beyond the set.

I was adored once too.

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness.

How much better it would be if all could be more aware of God’s providence and love and express that gratitude to Him.

In the real world, children love me.

They do not love that do not show their love.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

I love our daughters more than anything in the world – more than life itself. And while that may not be the first thing that some folks want to hear from an Ivy-league-educated lawyer, it is truly who I am. So for me, being Mom-in-Chief is, and always will be, job number one.

I don’t know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

I don’t want enemies. I want friends, and I want them in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and loving whoever they want to.

As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.

People react to fear, not love; they don’t teach that in Sunday School, but it’s true.

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

There is no such thing as a lovers‘ oath.

Jesus is a divine guest inside of you all the time – one who loves, understands, sees and hears you. He wants to live in oneness with you… to be the centerpiece of everything you do.

I’m no genius.