I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

Good jokes are gems. A good idea is hard to come by. I couldn’t give them to someone else, even for money. It just wouldn’t seem right.

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

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.

When you’re around the kids, you feel like you act the most grown up just because you’re supposed to lead. I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The problem is the person or persons using it.

When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

If a person is successful, we imagine they are probably also ethical, conscientious and deserving of their good fortune. This obscures the fact that many people who get ahead have done so by doing less than moral actions, which they cleverly disguise from view.

Jesus never mistreated anyone just because they mistreated Him. He confronted them in a spirit of gentleness and then continued to love them.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

I definitely don’t think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.

Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

I don’t really know that much about love, it turns out.

What keeps me motivated is love and passion.

No one loves the man whom he fears.

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.

I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

The spirit of America has nurtured responsibility and community unlike any other country.

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

When the President does it, that means that it’s not illegal.

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all – the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.

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.

Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That’s definitely my first response. I think change is more likely to happen if both partners have common language and a shared lens to see problems.

I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.

A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back.

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

I’ve told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn’t kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.

Regardless of what society says, we can’t go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgment coming.

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.

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

I think that you can love people without it being the great love.

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

A President’s hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

My husband is everything to me and without him it’s just not the same.

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.

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.