The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

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

I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn’t care what kind of movies I made.

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.

I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.

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

My whole life and my whole career, even through my music, I tell people: let’s unify; let’s show more love.

I love hugging people. I still hug everybody in my meet-and-greet lines.

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o‘ the flatterer.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.

Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish.

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.

My wife and I are very affectionate.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.

When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.

Ever since I dated a woman, I know what it is to grab a curve on a woman’s body. Skinny’s not fine when the lights are low.

The only big things I’ve purchased are my dad’s heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.

Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness and moderation is certain and durable.

Women – always in trouble with them, but can’t live without them.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

I’m not claiming divinity. I’ve never claimed purity of soul. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can… But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

There are no rules when it comes to love.

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

I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other – and we still are.

Christmas is the perfect time to celebrate the love of God and family and to create memories that will last forever. Jesus is God’s perfect, indescribable gift. The amazing thing is that not only are we able to receive this gift, but we are able to share it with others on Christmas and every other day of the year.

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.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary. So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

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

They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.

Men who think that a woman’s past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.

Without Cambodia, I may never have become a mother. Part of my heart is and will always be in this country. And part of this country is always with me: Maddox.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

He didn’t come out of my belly, but my God, I’ve made his bones, because I’ve attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I’m so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

The heart is forever inexperienced.

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Who, being loved, is poor?

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don’t accept it, it’s their loss.

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

I knew through the surgeries that he was on my side and that this wasn’t something where I was gonna feel less of a woman, because my husband wasn’t gonna let that happen.

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

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

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

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