I dote on his very absence.

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

I think love is one of the purest things you can sing about. One of the best things you can sing about.

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

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

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

I’ve often felt depressed; everyone feels depressed.

Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors. I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, ‚One of these days I’m going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.‘ That’s all I’ve ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.

We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother – but… when she became our child, the affection came.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.

I think I have had so much blessing – I’ve had my brother, who was brilliant – I think my family came closest to making a genius when they made my brother – Bailey was just all of that. He loved me.

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

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

Intimates are predestined.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with the picket fence from June Allyson movies. I knew that was yearning like one yearns to fly.

People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like – that’s a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.

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.

My mother was and will always remain my greatest hero.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

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

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?

I married my best friend that happens to be a girl.

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

The only answer to fear is faith in God, knowing He loves you unconditionally and individually.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

You can’t forgive without loving. And I don’t mean sentimentality. I don’t mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, ‚I forgive. I’m finished with it.‘

We want justice, but at the same time, we gotta love and come together and bring unity, and I feel it’s gonna happen.

The joy and love that I get from playing football are unbelievable. It is such a feeling that I want to give everything that I have got. I just enjoy it, I am living a life that I never even dreamt of.

It is necessary to fall in love… if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

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

The key to winning is choosing to do God’s will and loving others with all you’ve got.

When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

I’ve found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.

Your emotions are very unstable and should never be the foundation for direction in your life.

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.

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.

Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.

When I was a teenager, I thought how great it would be if only I could write novels in English. I had the feeling that I would be able to express my emotions so much more directly than if I wrote in Japanese.

I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.

No one was more shocked or angry than I was when we didn’t find the weapons. I had a sickening feeling every time I thought about it. I still do.

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

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.