I have discovered that my interest in my dear pupil, Mabel, has ripened into a far deeper feeling than that of mere friendship. In fact, I know that I have learned to love her very sincerely.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother – but… when she became our child, the affection came.

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

We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.

I am who I am today because of my mother.

Life loves the liver of it.

If you are not being bullied all I would say – cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well – is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there’s someone in your class that maybe doesn’t have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

I love story songs because I’ve always loved books.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

When I get married, it’ll be no secret.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

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.

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

Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be Vice President of the United States of America. Let’s get that straight. She’s a truly close personal friend. She is qualified to be President of the United States of America. She’s easily qualified to be Vice President of the United States of America.

All emotion is involuntary when genuine.

I’ve been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she’ll kill me.

No one loves the man whom he fears.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

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

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

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.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

A youth, when at home, should be filial and, abroad, respectful to his elders. He should be earnest and truthful. He should overflow in love to all and cultivate the friendship of the good. When he has time and opportunity, after the performance of these things, he should employ them in polite studies.

I love performing, you know, because, like I say, I’m a ham for this stuff.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die – and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

There’s love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we’re alone in our heads.

A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

My wife has about everything I can think of.

Every time I come to Europe, I’m just as excited as I was my very first time, which was many, many years ago. I love that part of the world, and I especially love the fans.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

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.

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

I think the discovery of supersymmetric partners for the known particles would revolutionize our understanding of the universe.

We will always be a family. Always.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards – the things we live by and teach our children – are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

You send a boy to school in order to make friends – the right sort.

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

Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness and moderation is certain and durable.

I absolutely adore Christmas.

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

If I’m not in love, if I’m not with a long-term companion, I cannot be happy.

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.

We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.

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

I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it’s been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can’t stop thinking about.

The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it’s almost impossible to stamp out.

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it’s with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.

It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend’s folly.

I think that if all kids aspire to reach a point where they could feed themselves and a few of their friends, this would be good for the world surely.