There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

I am who I am today because of my mother.

The fame isn’t important to me. It’s a blessing to have. Having so many people that support me, that love me and listen to my music, is beautiful.

Passion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I’ll probably… drop writing children’s books and become a political cartoonist again.

I’m happiest with my family around me.

Puerto Rico’s relationship with music is everything. It’s an island full of talent and if you grow up there, you grow up living and breathing music.

I always want to create and do things, or draw.

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

My mother loved children – she would have given anything if I had been one.

People like music when they’re in love, but they don’t need it as much. You need music when you’re missing someone or you’re pining for someone or you’re forgetting someone or you’re trying to process what just happened.

I’ll bring my grits when I travel, because I get so hungry on the road.

To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

I love tango, and I used to dance when I was young.

You’d have a hard time finding anything better than Barcelona for food, as far as being a hub. Given a choice between Barcelona and San Sebastian to die in, I’d probably want to die in San Sebastian.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

Love is only one of many passions.

I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks.

I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents‘ garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

I like having my hands in the clay. I like the movie-making process.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

In the real world, children love me.

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.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

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

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.

You can’t forgive without loving. And I don’t mean sentimentality. I don’t mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, ‚I forgive. I’m finished with it.‘

I have no hostility to nature, but a child’s love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

Man seems to be the only animal whose food soils him, making necessary much washing and shield-like bibs and napkins. Moles living in the earth and eating slimy worms are yet as clean as seals or fishes, whose lives are one perpetual wash.

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It’s one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

I’m pretty sure I don’t have any songs that are about how much I love someone. They’re all either about, like, ‚I hate you,‘ or ‚You make me hate me.‘

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I’m upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author’s soul.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

My weaknesses have always been food and men – in that order.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.

I am radically, insanely, nutty in love with Jesus!

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

Intimates are predestined.

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

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia – to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.

You want to do good things, and once you’ve done a couple of good things in a row, you think ‚Well gee, let’s not mess this up.‘ But I am lucky at this point that I have something I really love to do, and it completely holds my attention. I never feel frustrated by it.

Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I’m fully behind.

Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

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

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few.