Life in abundance comes only through great love.

Life is a song to me.

I’ve never had a dislike for men. I’ve been badly treated by some. But I’ve been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That’s not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that’s what life needs to be – and that if it’s not that, it’s all screwed up. It’s not.

Life doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television.

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

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.

An unused life is an early death.

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

I feel matured in a way that I’m happy about. I’m at this other stage in my life – and it’s not a bad thing at all.

I was very worried about my mother, growing up – a lot. I do not want my children to be worried about me.

Our pleasures were simple – they included survival.

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since, when death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God.

As a father and now a grandfather to three wonderful grandchildren, I know how magical the first year of a child’s life is but also how much hard work it takes. Being able to spend as much time as possible with your loved ones is absolutely vital, especially early on.

We might as well die as to go on living like this.

As far as I’m concerned, I’m a writer who’s writing books, and therefore, I don’t want to die. You’d miss the end of the book wouldn’t you? You can’t die with an unfinished book.

Civilisations have been destroyed many times, and this civilisation is no different. It can be destroyed. We can think of time in terms of millions of years and life will resume little by little. The cosmos operates for us very urgently, but geological time is different.

Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

For me to talk with Obama and the conversation I had with him, I was letting him know that me and my fans have a special connection, and it’s love, and I believe that love is the answer.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

True happiness is… to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern… No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.

Heavenly Father loves every one of His children. After all, He is their Father.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I’m trying to say is I’m trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

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

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

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

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Where love is, there God is also.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

No matter what, I always make it home for Christmas. I love to go to my Tennessee Mountain Home and invite all of my nieces and nephews and their spouses and kids and do what we all like to do – eat, laugh, trade presents and just enjoy each other… and sometimes I even dress up like Santa Claus!

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

It seems like a lot of people seek their peace in things. And most of us are not even satisfied with the things we have… we always want more.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

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

Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species.

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

This is not a bad life.

Maria is the best reason to come home.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

Respect is one of life’s greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don’t have that?

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.