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.

I love life because what more is there?

God to me is love.

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

Let it be our delight to find our society in the circle of which Jesus is the center, and let us make those our friends who are the friends of Jesus.

The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.

My wife is already in Heaven.

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 reason children accept discipline from their parents is because they know their parents love them.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world… Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

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

Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I’ve never been in love before – I don’t really know? I think I have. I guess it’s subjective in that way.

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?

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

Olympics for me is love, peace, united.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

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

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.

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

Speak low, if you speak love.

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

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

Absolutely not. I have no problem with commitment. In fact, I love having someone in my life.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

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

Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you’re heartbroken, but tomorrow you’ll be in love again.

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

In the flush of love’s light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.

The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.

If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.

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

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

The revealed Word awakened me, but it was the preached Word that saved me, and I must ever attach peculiar value to the hearing of the truth, for by it I received the joy and peace in which my soul delights.

I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.

I’ve never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I’ve only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.

Great loves too must be endured.

I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.

They died hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

I have been so great in boxing they had to create an image like Rocky, a white image on the screen, to counteract my image in the ring. America has to have its white images, no matter where it gets them. Jesus, Wonder Woman, Tarzan and Rocky.

You are Mrs. Reagan because Mr. Reagan loves you with all his heart.

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

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.

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love – first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

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

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

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.‘

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

If someone is right for you, you’ll know it.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

I absolutely adore Christmas.

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.