Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace marked on the heart of the element by the psychical convergence of the universe upon itself.

Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

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

The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it’s just the thing that every man wants – to have a son and heir.

If music be the food of love, play on.

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

We can’t form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what’s in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

I think the perfection of love is that it’s not perfect.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

The profoundly ‚atomic‘ character of the universe is visible in everyday experience, in raindrops and grains of sand, in the hosts of the living, and the multitude of stars; even in the ashes of the dead.

If you like it you should enjoy it! Moderation in everything. If there’s things you really love, you should enjoy. You get one life, so you should enjoy it.

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone’s wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

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

For years, my early work with Roger Penrose seemed to be a disaster for science. It showed that the universe must have begun with a singularity, if Einstein’s general theory of relativity is correct. That appeared to indicate that science could not predict how the universe would begin.

For me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation, but which is little by little taking on body and form in Christ.

We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.

I want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing.

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.

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.

As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.

I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.

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

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.

I’m a human being and I fall in love and sometimes I don’t have control of every situation.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

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.

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.

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.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.

I only act from my heart.

Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

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

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

I came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the ‚Not Me,‘ that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, ‚Nature.‘

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

Every time I come to Europe, I’m just as excited as I was my very first time, which was many, many years ago. I love that part of the world, and I especially love the fans.

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

Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

I never thought I’d have children; I never thought I’d be in love, I never thought I’d meet the right person. Having come from a broken home – you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don’t look for them.

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

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

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

They died hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.