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.

Science arose from poetry… when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

What keeps me motivated is love and passion.

Love always ends differently and it always begins differently – especially with me.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship – never.

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

Where love is, there God is also.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

I’m definitely gaining new fans, and that’s the key of any success… gain more love.

We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.

Marriage is the most wonderful thing ever.

It’s not possible to stop love.

I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.

Love and desire are the spirit’s wings to great deeds.

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.

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

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.

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

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.

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

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

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.

If you cry over a guy, then your friends can’t date him. It can’t even be considered.

Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don’t know why this one is different, but it is. You don’t know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can’t stop thinking about it.

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

Oh, I’ve always been very… Emotional. ‚Hypersensitive‘ is what they call it, I think.

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

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.

I don’t want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.

The knighthood was a tremendous honour, I don’t dismiss it. But I feel embarrassed by the flowery, theatrical stuff that goes with being an actor.

I’m such an emotional and sensitive person, so it only makes sense that my songs are as well.

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

How much better it would be if all could be more aware of God’s providence and love and express that gratitude to Him.

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

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man’s self.

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

The sadness of the women’s movement is that they don’t allow the necessity of love. See, I don’t personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

All you need to do to be my friend is like me.

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.