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

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot.

My mother made me truly appreciate women.

In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love.

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

Love is a serious mental disease.

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.

I don’t want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.

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

There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

I’ve been careful in love. I’ve been careless in love. And I’ve had adventures I wouldn’t trade for anything.

I don’t like the intellectual label.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It’s one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

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

I’ve been doing comedy longer than I haven’t been doing comedy, as I was performing for three years before I even got on ‚The Tonight Show.‘ There’s truly nothing like it; it’s intense and exhilarating, even though it looks so casual.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.

Men who think that a woman’s past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.

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

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.

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

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

It always seems to me so odd that when a man dies, he takes out with him all the knowledge that he has got in his lifetime whilst sowing his wild oats or winning successes. And he leaves his sons or younger brothers to go through all the work of learning it over again from their own experience.

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

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

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love – first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

It’s been said that astronomy is a humbling and, I might add, a character-building experience.

I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.

It was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion.

In my opinion, there is no aspect of reality beyond the reach of the human mind.

I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another.

Hillary doesn’t play. She has more experience and exposure to the presidency than any candidate in our lifetime – yes, more than Barack, more than Bill. So she is absolutely ready to be Commander-in-Chief on day one. And, yes, she happens to be a woman.

Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.

The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.

I love New York. I’m a guy for whom a New York accent is a comforting thing.

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.

Women have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful, and I’m not embarrassed to explore that in a film. But there are things you get offered that are vulgar and violent – just like there’s a side of me that’s vulgar and violent.

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.

It has been hard for me to find it, but I have found love.

I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don’t just want to possess it, it will find you.

Facts are not interesting to me.

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.

Old age is just a record of one’s whole life.

Going to Southeast Asia for the first time and tasting that spectrum of flavors – that certainly changed my whole palate, the kind of foods I crave. A lot of the dishes I used to love became boring to me.

I believe when it comes to love, there’s something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don’t think I have a pattern.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

I love my daddy. My daddy’s everything. I hope I can find a man that will treat me as good as my dad.

I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

God to me is love.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.