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

I can encourage my daughter to love her body, but what really matters are the observations she makes about my relationship with my own body.

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

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.

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

What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.

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

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

You know what, I’m very attracted to someone who makes me laugh and is that charming. Really, I could be charmed by anyone. I’m just a sucker for somebody that is charming.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.

In my house I’m the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.

There are two kinds of people in this world. ‚I‘ people and ‚we‘ people. I’ve always tried to be a ‚we‘ person.

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Sometimes, you might meet somebody that you love that’s turning into a ‚they.‘ My key is invite them to Miami and take them to the ocean and let them jump off the boat in the ocean, on the sand bar, and cleanse off and pray and then go take a shower, and hopefully the ‚they‘ is out of you.

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

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.

I love imperfections.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‚understand‘ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.

When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

Logically, harmony must come from the heart… Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.

The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we’ll fail, and sometimes we’ll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you’ll find support.

Women – always in trouble with them, but can’t live without them.

You are not a problem that needs solving.

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

If I think too hard about a relationship, I’ll talk myself out of it.

Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.

I’m here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don’t follow what you’ve been told you’re supposed to do.

I was gutted to leave my boyfriend at home when I started my tour, but taking my pillow was like taking a little bit of him with me.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

A saint is tolerant and is attentive to the pleadings of other human beings, not only to spoken messages but to unspoken messages as well.

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?

I’ve been careful in love. I’ve been careless in love. And I’ve had adventures I wouldn’t trade for anything.

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

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

It has been hard for me to find it, but I have found love.

In each soul, God loves and partly saves the whole world which that soul sums up in an incommunicable and particular way.

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.

I married my best friend that happens to be a girl.

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

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

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

Know your worth! People always act like they’re doing more for you than you’re doing for them.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

I am a very emotional guy. What I love, I do with all I have.

You can’t have it all, all at once. Who – man or woman – has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world… Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.