Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

There is too much government today. We’ve got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.

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.

You can’t have a relationship with a device whose limits are unknown to you, because without limits, it keeps becoming something else.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

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.

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

I can’t deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you.

I think, a lot of times when you meet someone, you feel like you need to appear like you’re not interested in them so that they’ll be more interested in you. But what happens when you start showing him that you actually like him? What’s he gonna do then? Play the tape forward; how do you keep a guy like that? I don’t want to sign up for that.

Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.

Country radio is much more like a family than any other group of people that I’ve met.

I’ve known and continue to know every one of these major world leaders by their first names, and I have access to them.

Like every parent, when you start your family, your life completely changes. And you completely live for someone else. I find that the most extraordinary thing. Your life is handed over to someone else. From that moment on, they come first in every choice you make. It’s the most wonderful thing.

You know what, I’m very attracted to someone who makes me laugh and is that charming. Really, I could be charmed by anyone. I’m just a sucker for somebody that is charming.

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don’t just want to possess it, it will find you.

I don’t know what’s better gettin‘ laid or gettin‘ paid.

How much better it would be if all could be more aware of God’s providence and love and express that gratitude to Him.

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

How do I know about a man’s needs for a sex symbol? I’m a girl.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, ‚I love you.‘

India is a democracy; it is in our DNA.

Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.

Ever since I first came here in 1963 to fight Henry Cooper, I have loved the people of England.

We are not actually equal – humanity – if we are not allowed to freely love one another.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

As I get older, I tend to put more into family than I used to.

Speak low, if you speak love.

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.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

The voting booth joint is a great leveler; the whole neighborhood – rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky – they all turn out in one day.

We’re not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

I would never win an award for not loving pizza.

Agape, the love of each one of us for the other, from the closest to the furthest, is in fact the only way that Jesus has given us to find the way of salvation and of the Beatitudes.

Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.

If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?

It’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

Do not rebuke mockers, or they will hate you; rebuke the wise, and they will love you.

Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since, when death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God.

I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.

There’s nothing better than having a baby. I’ve always loved children. I used to work summers at the YMCA and be in charge of, like, 30 preschool kids. I knew that when I had a child, I’d be overwhelmed, and it’s true… I can’t tell you how much my attitude has changed since we’ve got Frances. Holding my baby is the best drug in the world.