I always wanted to be loved.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

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.

Friends are thieves of time.

If you wished to be loved, love.

The self is hateful.

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

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

I make friends faster and easier than journalists.

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

We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.

The mind of a 19-year-old is very different from the mind of a 26-year-old. You grow. You get into better relationships. You experience more, meet more people, better people. But when you’re in a dark hole at an earlier point in your life – you write about the mindset you’re in at that moment.

Pay attention, don’t let life go by you. Fall in love with the back of your cereal box.

Women don’t try to use me.

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.

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they’re already asleep.

I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations.

I’ve got a crush on my backing singer.

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

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?

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

Love can do much, but duty more.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

I always wanted more – more of everything.

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author’s world.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.

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.

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that’s when I think life is over.

When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

The only big things I’ve purchased are my dad’s heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.

Accept everything about yourself – I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end – no apologies, no regrets.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

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

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.