Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

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

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

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Love is the most powerful thing in the world, and you know, what love brings is joy.

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

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.

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

I give unto my wife my second best bed with the furniture.

It’s a funny thing that when a man hasn’t anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

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.

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

I’m just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.

Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.

It is better to do one’s own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.

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.

Really showing love requires more than just words.

We’re all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one’s self.

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

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

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

My audience went, ‚Wait, why is she singing jazz? What’s going on?‘ And then they went, ‚Oh, because she can. Because she loves it.‘ And jazz, a music invented by the African-American community, is the greatest art form, I believe, to have ever come out of this country.

I’ve been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she’ll kill me.

I’ve done the bad-boy thing. It was fun for a good three months. But the thing about bad boys is, you have to keep in mind, you’re never gonna marry a bad boy.

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

Love is trembling happiness.

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it.

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don’t know why this one is different, but it is. You don’t know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can’t stop thinking about it.

All things considered, there’s nobody better for children than parents.

To every soul that knows how to pray, to every soul that by faith comes to Jesus, the true mercy seat, divine sovereignty wears no dark and terrible aspect but is full of love.

I want to marry Arline because I love her – which means I want to take care of her. That is all there is to it. I want to take care of her. I am anxious for the responsibilities and uncertainties of taking care of the girl I love.

It’s not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.

Crazy players love me. I don’t know why.

What’s really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

I give the children education.

I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

Occasionally I’ve seen children become heavy-handed and insensitive when dealing with their aging parents, and it only caused resentment and hard feelings.

I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

My wife is already in Heaven.

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

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.

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.