I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

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.

I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.

I’m a girls‘ girl. I have guy friends, but the problem with having guy friends is, like, I always get linked to them, and they’ll end up in a slideshow of people I’ve apparently dated on the Internet.

All mankind love a lover.

For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

I had no bad moment in my relationship with Dortmund. Not one second.

I’m the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren’t no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn’t know about them.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

Patience is key for getting over a breakup. That, and trailing off your interaction after the breakup.

I would be married, but I’d have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

Part of me feels you can’t say you were truly in love if it didn’t last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that’s when I’ll know it’s real – because it lasted.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.

If someone is right for you, you’ll know it.

Our constitution is a ray of hope: H for harmony, O for Opportunity, P for people’s participation and E for equality.

Mr. Mijanovi and those associated with him are the hope and the conscience of the Yugoslav revolution.

Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.

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

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

The secret is not to give up hope. It’s very hard not to because if you’re really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.

God wants to help us… He loves us… we are His children. But He will not force His help on us at any time. He sees us when we struggle and fight and complain our way through things. And I believe it breaks His heart, when all we have to do is ask Him for help.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Young love is wild and outrageous, laughing at moderation and blinding us to common sense.

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity… The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

My wife is already in Heaven.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

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

He who has felt his own ruin will not imagine the case of any to be hopeless; nor will he think them too fallen to be worthy his regard.

There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people’s kids than I did my own.

Fear is real, but so is love.

I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

My mother did not like children.

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

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

Funny is the world I live in. You’re funny, I’m interested. You’re not funny, I’m not interested.

I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals.

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who’ll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you’re in the wrong house, that’s what it means.

You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope.

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

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

You can’t have a relationship with a device whose limits are unknown to you, because without limits, it keeps becoming something else.

Intimates are predestined.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age. Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

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.

A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people’s hope.

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.

I knew through the surgeries that he was on my side and that this wasn’t something where I was gonna feel less of a woman, because my husband wasn’t gonna let that happen.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that’s not so bad; but New York City?

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

I love the sea.