Not necessity, not desire – no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything – health, food, a place to live, entertainment – they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural.

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

I’m grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to.

Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it’s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

Obama’s primary constituency was financial institutions. They were the core of the funding for his campaign. They expect to be paid back. And they were. They were paid back by coming out richer and more powerful than they were before the crisis that they created.

An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organisational success.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

As for our majority… one is enough.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

I’m drawn to bad romances.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

I think love is one of the purest things you can sing about. One of the best things you can sing about.

The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it’s almost impossible to stamp out.

It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it… anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

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

If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can’t be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: ‚This is my country.‘

If we want to reduce poverty and misery, if we want to give to every deserving individual what is needed for a safe existence of an intelligent being, we want to provide more machinery, more power. Power is our mainstay, the primary source of our many-sided energies.

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

My mother was and will always remain my greatest hero.

We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.

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.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

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.

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

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.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

At the end of the day, we started playing football because we loved it.

Everyone has been in love, at some point or another.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

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

A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.

I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.