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

Life loves the liver of it.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

Actually, you have to be a little bit in love with your leading man and vice versa. If you’re going to portray love, you have to feel it. You can’t do it any other way. But you don’t carry it beyond the set.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain – we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

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

Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion – towards ourselves and towards all living beings.

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

I’m not a real movie star. I’ve still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

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.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

A true man hates no one.

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

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

We can feel joy even while having a bad day, a bad week, or even a bad year!

To be loved is very demoralizing.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

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

Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.

Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can – that is their secret.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background, and I think the greatest thing to do is to pray that God will give you love for them, and I do.

Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.

What the mind doesn’t understand, it worships or fears.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?… It is necessary to accompany them with mercy.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

When people get married young, you don’t really understand the true definition of marriage.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

I love Manchester. Everyone knows that – I have said it many times. Manchester is in my heart.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that justifies this goodness and this love?

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

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

Love can do much, but duty more.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

I knew I was blessed with a gift of having both parents.

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness – great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

I’m not claiming divinity. I’ve never claimed purity of soul. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can… But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

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

I’ve been careful in love. I’ve been careless in love. And I’ve had adventures I wouldn’t trade for anything.

Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I’m trying to say is I’m trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

I love hugging people. I still hug everybody in my meet-and-greet lines.

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