Love is an interesting thing.

When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.

I’m not a real movie star. I’ve still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

I’ve been writing poems since I was in the Navy – to Rosalynn. I found I could say things in poems that I never could in prose. Deeper, more personal things. I could write a poem about my mother that I could never tell my mother. Or feelings about being on a submarine that I would have been too embarrassed to share with fellow submariners.

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

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.

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.

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

You are Mrs. Reagan because Mr. Reagan loves you with all his heart.

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

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

My wife and I love each other very much.

Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

I don’t want to get into it, but if you know someone, it doesn’t mean you agree with everything they say or they do.

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

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

Rocks and waters, etc., are words of God, and so are men. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.

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

We were born with a capacity to grow, love, marry, and form families.

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?

If I think too hard about a relationship, I’ll talk myself out of it.

Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God’s divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego’s insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you.

If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.

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.

I absolutely adore Christmas.

Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don’t mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That’s not power. That’s just corruption.

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.

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.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I’m always going to feel everything. It’s my nature.

When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

I never fall in love.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

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

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

Funny is the world I live in. You’re funny, I’m interested. You’re not funny, I’m not interested.

My wife doesn’t even want to spend 2 hours with me.

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

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

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

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone’s singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person. That’s the only way I can find an explanation for why 55,000 people would want to come see me sing.

In God’s family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

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.