For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

When we’re falling in love or out of it, that’s when we most need a song that says how we feel. Yeah, I write a lot of songs about boys. And I’m very happy to do that.

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness – great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you’re heartbroken, but tomorrow you’ll be in love again.

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

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

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.

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.

If every man loves his mother, he’s going to treat the ladies right, with love and respect.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

A true man hates no one.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

What’s really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

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

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

Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.

I kind of love Cole Miller.

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

Some people love so hard that they can’t control those emotions when they’re at their deepest point.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

I just have a relationship with my imagination. It’s like my friend, almost.

I was fortunate and I was lucky that I had a couple of people in my life who cared about me. I had good, loving parents.

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don’t just want to possess it, it will find you.

Do not rebuke mockers, or they will hate you; rebuke the wise, and they will love you.

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

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

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.

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

My audience went, ‚Wait, why is she singing jazz? What’s going on?‘ And then they went, ‚Oh, because she can. Because she loves it.‘ And jazz, a music invented by the African-American community, is the greatest art form, I believe, to have ever come out of this country.

Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night’s date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn’t think of looking at another woman.

She would have thrived as a grandmother. I know how much she would have contributed to their lives, and I am sad they will miss out on that.

Every device there is in language is there to be used, if you will. Poets have got to enjoy themselves sometimes, and the twistings and convolutions of words, the inventions and contrivances, are all part of the joy that is part of the painful, voluntary work.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Our love, our gratitude, our admiration for our men and women in uniform, our veterans and their families – all of that is bigger than any one party or any one election.

Marty was an extraordinary person. Of all the boys I had dated, he was the only one who really cared that I had a brain. And he was always – well, making me feel that I was better than I thought I was.

I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

I have a really close relationship with Mike Bloomberg.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

You are a child of the sun, you come from the sun, and that is something true with the Earth also… your relationship with the Earth is so deep, and the Earth is in you and this is something not very difficult, much less difficult then philosophy.

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet’s heart when caught and tangled in a woman’s body?

I care not much for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

Whether a person is straight or gay, Republican, Democrat, good person, not a good person, they’re all welcome, because to me, church is a place you’re supposed to get healed and whole and loved.

Absolutely not. I have no problem with commitment. In fact, I love having someone in my life.

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

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one’s self.

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.

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.

There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving – by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

All mankind love a lover.

This is love: the flowering of love is meditation.

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

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man.

How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that justifies this goodness and this love?

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.