Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

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.

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship – never.

I love story songs because I’ve always loved books.

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

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.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

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

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

Of all nature’s gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

I’ve always been fascinated by everything with wings.

For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

Like every parent, when you start your family, your life completely changes. And you completely live for someone else. I find that the most extraordinary thing. Your life is handed over to someone else. From that moment on, they come first in every choice you make. It’s the most wonderful thing.

Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action, which produces further confusion, further misery.

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

Mad or glad, Mr. Reagan is head over heels in love with Mrs. Reagan and can’t even imagine a world without her – He loves her.

Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness and moderation is certain and durable.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

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.

‚Harry Potter‘ gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.

The only answer to fear is faith in God, knowing He loves you unconditionally and individually.

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we’re small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.

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.

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they’re already asleep.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

The reason children accept discipline from their parents is because they know their parents love them.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

After all, life hasn’t much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

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

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.

For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don’t think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I’m with them.

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

The only big things I’ve purchased are my dad’s heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.

I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background, and I think the greatest thing to do is to pray that God will give you love for them, and I do.

We never love a person, but only qualities.

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

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 should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you’re heartbroken, but tomorrow you’ll be in love again.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

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

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

I love food.

Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion – towards ourselves and towards all living beings.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.