Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

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.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

I’ve had moments when I’ve thought about somebody, picked up the phone to call them and they are on the line already, and I think that maybe there’s some vibration, some connection.

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone’s inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.

I love America, it’s a much more permissive place.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

I would probably have more in common with a whale than with a bourgeois married couple employed at worthy institutions that I would wipe from the face of the earth if it was given to me to do so.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.

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.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it’s just the thing that every man wants – to have a son and heir.

He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice runs in favor of two.

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

We will always be a family. Always.

Logically, harmony must come from the heart… Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.

It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.

Our goal in the ’70s was to end the closed door era. There were so many things that were off limits to women: policing, firefighting, mining, piloting planes.

Treat your children like the blessings they are or don’t have them at all.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

I love our daughters more than anything in the world – more than life itself. And while that may not be the first thing that some folks want to hear from an Ivy-league-educated lawyer, it is truly who I am. So for me, being Mom-in-Chief is, and always will be, job number one.

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

Love is a state of being.

I don’t like cream puff, corny guys. Usually, they are the nice guys, the ones that won’t hurt you. They’ll pull out the chair for you and the whole nine yards. Everything is perfect and boring.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

If someone lies, well, you had a choice to trust that person or not. I think the way my father raised me, well, he trusted everybody. And that worked for him.

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

Within one’s own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.

When red-haired people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.

Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else’s religion, but he’ll accept his gold.

Love can do much, but duty more.

Basically my wife was immature. I’d be at home in the bath and she’d come in and sink my boats.

My gold, my money couldn’t stop cancer from appearing on my body. If they can’t save me, then I don’t need them.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Trying to meet new women, it’s always a little more difficult as opposed to calling somebody I knew that’s single and trying to rebuild that connection.

My wife and I love each other very much.

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

When you find a guy who is powerful, a big father figure, you latch onto him immediately.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

In one day, I have times where I’m feeling great, I feel like I love my life, and then 2:30 rolls around and I’m the angriest man alive. My wife sees it.

Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.

A chaplain’s assistant is customarily a figure of fun in the American Army.

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.

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

When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection, love is born.