I love sleep; it’s my favorite.

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

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

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

God’s love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

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

Right now I’m just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.

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.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

I don’t have to ‚freedom-kiss‘ my wife when what I really want to do is French-kiss her.

I’m doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: ‚Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?‘ We must always consider the person.

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night’s date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn’t think of looking at another woman.

Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

I don’t want enemies. I want friends, and I want them in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and loving whoever they want to.

What keeps me up at night? Anxiety. Anxiety, the inability to go to sleep, it’s quite literally that.

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion’s roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

You see, at the end of the day, my most important title is still ‚mom-in-chief.‘ My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world.

Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.

I think love is one of the purest things you can sing about. One of the best things you can sing about.

I can’t play bridge. I don’t play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn’t seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.

No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.

You can’t forgive without loving. And I don’t mean sentimentality. I don’t mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, ‚I forgive. I’m finished with it.‘

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.

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.

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.

During the season, most of my time to unwind is in my car ride home. When I get home, it’s being with my kids.

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

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

Confidence, as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I loved cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

At the end of the day, we started playing football because we loved it.

Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone… Bad food is fake food… food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people’s ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

No man wants to settle down. It happens. Eventually you’re going to bump into somebody that makes you go, ‚Hmm, I don’t mind seeing this person every day.‘

What I’ve discovered is that in art, as in music, there’s a lot of truth-and then there’s a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It’s the moment that the audience falls in 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.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

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

Love… it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

I sleep people. I put people unconscious. I’m stating facts.

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

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

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

Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.

Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.

You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.

I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.