I always wanted to be loved.

If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.

Eating is so intimate. It’s very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you’re inviting a person into your life.

Here’s what I’ve learned about deal-breakers. If you have enough natural chemistry with someone, you overlook every single thing that you said would break the deal.

A true man hates no one.

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don’t know why he’s with me. I don’t know whether I’m good enough. But if I make him happy, then I’m everything I want to be.

I love my friends and my past, and it’s made me who I am.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

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.

In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.

We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.

I don’t have time to be lonely. And I get fearful of relationships because I feel guilty about wanting someone to be completely faithful and loyal, when I can’t even give them 10 percent of the attention that they need. It’s just the reality of my time, my life, my schedule.

My father wasn’t a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher – one of those Victorians, hard as iron – but my dad was tough enough.

The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.

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.

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

He didn’t come out of my belly, but my God, I’ve made his bones, because I’ve attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I’m so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

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

The one badge of Christian discipleship is not orthodoxy but love.

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

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

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

I am who I am today because of my mother.

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

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

Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

Love can do much, but duty more.

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it – and sometimes three.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Man’s enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.

It’s always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you’re seeing the most beautiful thing on God’s Earth.

Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.

Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet’s heart when caught and tangled in a woman’s body?

The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes – or just by staring into space.

Rocks and waters, etc., are words of God, and so are men. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love.

The important thing is to be in love with something.

House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Sometimes I’ve been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.

When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.