Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

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

I love food.

Delhi means everything to me. This city has given me everything, and I love it.

To feel not only submitted but willing to be anything or nothing as the Lord wills it – this is, in truth, to sing a song to our Well Beloved.

I don’t really know that much about love, it turns out.

The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes – or just by staring into space.

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

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

I was 14, and I fell in love with Pink Floyd.

Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.

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.

I knew I was blessed with a gift of having both parents.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

When people get married young, you don’t really understand the true definition of marriage.

We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

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

My sorrow, when she’s here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.

The important thing is to be in love with something.

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

A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.

I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.

Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it’s with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night’s date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn’t think of looking at another woman.

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

I’ve always loved the fans in Scotland and have a little Scottish blood of my own.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

You don’t want to live your life and then meet someone. You want to share your life with someone. That’s what I’m missing right now.

It is necessary to fall in love… if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

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

When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it’s been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can’t stop thinking about.

I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

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’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.

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.

Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can’t ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment’s notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow – that’s vulnerability.

I’m really interested in smells. I think I’d like to own a perfumery someday.

Oh, my mama was awesome. Very strict, overreligious, loved the Lord, loved rules. But she had to be that way because of where we were growing up, the neighborhood I was from.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

I’m drawn to bad romances.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

If I’m not in love, if I’m not with a long-term companion, I cannot be happy.

I love our daughters more than anything in the world – more than life itself. And while that may not be the first thing that some folks want to hear from an Ivy-league-educated lawyer, it is truly who I am. So for me, being Mom-in-Chief is, and always will be, job number one.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

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.

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.