When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

I would never win an award for not loving pizza.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.

A relationship can give you a gut wrenching feeling sometimes. It’s a real emotional ride.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

Not necessity, not desire – no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything – health, food, a place to live, entertainment – they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it.

I’m doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

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.

In God’s family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.

When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it’s been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can’t stop thinking about.

I am radically, insanely, nutty in love with Jesus!

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.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

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 love the attention but I don’t like too much of it.

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: ‚This is my country.‘

When you face a ‚performance‘ that might provoke the ‚I’m scared‘ response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It’s more fun than ‚Dancing with the Stars!‘

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

When you have kids, you see life through different eyes. You feel love more deeply and are maybe a little more compassionate. It’s inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting.

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

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

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through, and you could go in the back way.

I am who I am today because of my mother.

Sometimes, I’m very embarrassed.

People like to hear the word ‚love.‘

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

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.

We will always be a family. Always.

Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

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

It’s so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that’s what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

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

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

There’s nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It’s a thing no married man knows anything about.

I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don’t know if it’s possible forever and ever.

When I say ‚Crush your enemy‘, I don’t literally mean it.

I’ve always felt music is the only way to give an instantaneous moment the feel of slow motion. To romanticise it and glorify it and give it a soundtrack and a rhythm.

Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.

‚Harry Potter‘ gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.

Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I’d be a damn‘ fool if they weren’t.

People react to fear, not love; they don’t teach that in Sunday School, but it’s true.

Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?

There are so many emotions that you’re feeling, you can get stifled by them if you’re feeling them all at once. What I try to do is take one moment – one simple, simple feeling – and expand it into three-and-a-half minutes.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?