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

The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

How much better it would be if all could be more aware of God’s providence and love and express that gratitude to Him.

I’m happiest with my family around me.

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.

I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether there is any love for the church in the hearts of those who pay so much attention to the scandals.

Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.

If I held you any closer I would be on the other side of you.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

I kind of love Cole Miller.

I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

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

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

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

My whole life and my whole career, even through my music, I tell people: let’s unify; let’s show more love.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

When we understand string theory, we will know how the universe began. It won’t have much effect on how we live, but it is important to understand where we come from and what we can expect to find as we explore.

The target of preventive war must have several characteristics. It must be virtually defenceless; it must be important enough to be worth the trouble; it must be possible to portray it as the ultimate evil and an imminent threat to our survival.

I searched for years I found no love. I’m sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.

I wouldn’t be here today if it were not for the NHS. I have received a large amount of high-quality treatment without which I would not have survived.

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

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 don’t know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens.

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

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.

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died.

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn’t the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.

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

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

Many people find the universe confusing – it’s not.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn’t care what kind of movies I made.

You can write a song about being in love with someone, but you don’t have to be in love with anyone.

Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston, I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song, and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, ‚Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.‘

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

The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

We’re all caught up in circumstances, and we’re all good and evil. When you’re really hungry, for instance, you’ll do anything to survive. I think the most evil thing – well, maybe that’s too strong – but certainly a very evil thing is judgment, the sin of ignorance.

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and ‚superlive,‘ as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so.

Time discovers truth.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

We’re a blip in the existence of the universe, and we’re constantly trying to pull each other down. Not doing things to help each other.

The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.