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

To our critical eyes, the threads of which the past is woven are, by nature, endless and indivisible. Scientifically speaking, we cannot grasp the absolute beginning of anything: everything extends backwards to be prolonged by something else.

I know love is the answer.

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

I would be married, but I’d have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

Fear is real, but so is love.

You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we’re even alive at all.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

It’s hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don’t always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

It’s not possible to stop love.

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

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

I’ve done the bad-boy thing. It was fun for a good three months. But the thing about bad boys is, you have to keep in mind, you’re never gonna marry a bad boy.

Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?… It is necessary to accompany them with mercy.

Friend, there’s no greater investment in life than in being a people builder. Relationships are more important than our accomplishments.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

I think I have to trust that you end up with the person you’re supposed to end up with, and that everything in between is there to teach you stuff.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Love is a serious mental disease.

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

Lovers often invest their first meetings with retrospective significance, as if to try to conjure the elements of the numinous out of the stubborn witness of the everyday.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

I definitely don’t think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.

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

I’m just a friendly person; that runs in my family.

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.

I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone’s inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.

Those who today always look for disciplinarian solutions, those who long for an exaggerated doctrinal ‚security,‘ those who stubbornly try to recover a past that no longer exists – they have a static and inward-directed view of things. In this way, faith becomes an ideology among other ideologies.

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

I don’t see myself as a pop artist. Like, when you hear ‚pop,‘ you’re like, ‚Oh, bubblegum, jumpy little girly stuff,‘ and I feel like, ‚Uh-uh. That’s not me.‘

Nicki Minaj, I’m at MTV. I’m going to be honest with you: I love you. I like you. I want you; I want you to be mine. Only reason I’m not telling you this face to face is because I understand that you’re busy.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

All you need is love.

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin‘ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred.

I’m sick of the tabloids‘ saying I obsess over guys. Why would you obsess over guys? They don’t like it.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

I would never win an award for not loving pizza.

For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don’t think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I’m with them.

Time is something that interests me a whole lot – past and present, and how the past appears as people change.

Brad was a huge surprise to me. I think we were both the last two people who were looking for a relationship. I certainly wasn’t. I was quite content to be a single mom with Mad.

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.

I can imagine it’s hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn’t know.

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.

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