Anywhere I go, there is always an incredible crowd that follows me. In Rome, as I land at the airport, even the men kiss me. I love Rome.

I stayed in a really old hotel last night. They sent me a wake-up letter.

‚Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally. But in some of nature’s forests, the adventurous traveler seems a feeble, unwelcome creature; wild beasts and the weather trying to kill him, the rank, tangled vegetation, armed with spears and stinging needles, barring his way and making life a hard struggle.

I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.

As a teenager, I went to Bali a lot, but it’s a long, long way from England. Which is why, when we bought Necker Island, we made it like a mini Bali.

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

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

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

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

Gays are some of the nicest, kindest, most loving people in the world.

I don’t have to ‚freedom-kiss‘ my wife when what I really want to do is French-kiss her.

My wife and I love each other very much.

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

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

I’m such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.

I am a very emotional guy. What I love, I do with all I have.

When I worked on a magazine, I learned that there are many, many writers writing that can’t write at all; and they keep on writing all the cliches and bromides and 1890 plots, and poems about Spring and poems about Love, and poems they think are modern because they are done in slang or staccato style, or written with all the ‚i’s‘ small.

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

Crazy players love me. I don’t know why.

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.

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.

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.

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

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.

Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural.

For me to talk with Obama and the conversation I had with him, I was letting him know that me and my fans have a special connection, and it’s love, and I believe that love is the answer.

Do you not realize that the love the Father bestowed on the perfect Christ He now bestows on you?

I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

I could do one show after another in China for the rest of my life and still die ignorant. There’s a lot of places left to go.

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

Any East Coast road trip we have is very exciting, just being on the road, taking it all in.

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

Treat your children like the blessings they are or don’t have them at all.

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

As a father and now a grandfather to three wonderful grandchildren, I know how magical the first year of a child’s life is but also how much hard work it takes. Being able to spend as much time as possible with your loved ones is absolutely vital, especially early on.

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.

For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

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

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

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.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.

I like Italian movies. I was frequently there in the ’60s, in Rome and the vicinity. It was a great period in life. I was very influenced by their stuff.

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.