Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

I like being with my family. That’s my party.

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

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.

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, ‚Did you sleep good?‘ I said ‚No, I made a few mistakes.‘

I’ve… been accused of being involved with every man I’m ever seen with or worked with. Maybe I have, maybe I ain’t. I never tell if I have.

Doing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, because you feel so much pressure to do well that night. But I think everyone’s grown to accept that and so they give me my space at the show.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

No, we don’t own our children. Our parental privilege is to love them, to lead them, and to let them go.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

Animals are my friends… and I don’t eat my friends.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.

It’s annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren’t they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.

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

You may be rich, but there is one thing you can’t afford – that is, if you are a good sort – you can’t afford to spend money on your own luxuries while there are people around you wanting the necessaries of life.

One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.

We were born with a capacity to grow, love, marry, and form families.

Sometimes, when I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child.

Sometimes, you might meet somebody that you love that’s turning into a ‚they.‘ My key is invite them to Miami and take them to the ocean and let them jump off the boat in the ocean, on the sand bar, and cleanse off and pray and then go take a shower, and hopefully the ‚they‘ is out of you.

Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.

Although the big word on the left is ‚compassion,‘ the big agenda on the left is dependency.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

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

It took Simone a long time to understand why people want Daddy’s autograph. I’d tell her, and my wife would tell her, too, ‚People see Daddy in the movies, and they are excited to meet him.‘ But she couldn’t really grasp it.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

Probably because I’m from a middle class family, I have that nature in me that I don’t get too excited with big things.

For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.

It’s very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.

He who hath many friends hath none.

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

I have noticed… that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.

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.

The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I’m willing to show you. In you, it’s courage and daring. In me, it’s weakness.

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

The more I grow in popularity, the lonelier it gets. Because you don’t really know me. You just know this part of me. You fell in love with that. But it’s way more intricate than what meets the surface.

I have 22 grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and they keep me young.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

That’s one of the biggest things. Never being home, always traveling, having different interests and focusing on different things, just the time aspect of going back home and seeing them, you don’t have that at all. It was a big sacrifice but, at the end of the day, it was worth it.

But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That’s what I strive to do, that’s what I pray to do every day.

If you’re in trouble, or hurt or need – go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones.

A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend’s griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother’s happiness.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

The good man is the friend of all living things.

There are two kinds of people in this world. ‚I‘ people and ‚we‘ people. I’ve always tried to be a ‚we‘ person.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

God to me is love.

We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.

Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

What really motivates people at Facebook is building something that’s worthwhile, that they’re going to be proud to show to friends and family.