Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

All mankind love a lover.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

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.

Marriage is the most wonderful thing ever.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

I always wanted to be loved.

A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?

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

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

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

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

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

Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.

You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.

I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That’s a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.

As a father and now a grandfather to three wonderful grandchildren, I know how magical the first year of a child’s life is but also how much hard work it takes. Being able to spend as much time as possible with your loved ones is absolutely vital, especially early on.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

Heavenly Father loves every one of His children. After all, He is their Father.

Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss.

The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror – and America is honored to be their friend.

If you are not being bullied all I would say – cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well – is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there’s someone in your class that maybe doesn’t have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person.

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 love my job, but it’s more than that: I need it.

There is a ‚sanctity‘ involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

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

When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection, love is born.

The joy and love that I get from playing football are unbelievable. It is such a feeling that I want to give everything that I have got. I just enjoy it, I am living a life that I never even dreamt of.

She would have thrived as a grandmother. I know how much she would have contributed to their lives, and I am sad they will miss out on that.

I became a people-watcher when I lost all my friends when I was 12.

My wife has about everything I can think of.

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

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

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

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

I have to be in tune. All the time. I have to be in tune with my husband, where he is, how he’s feeling. I have to be in tune with where my family is.

Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

When you write your first book aged 25 or so, you have 25 years of experience, albeit much of it juvenile experience. The second book comes after an extra year sitting in bookshops. Pretty soon, you begin to run on empty.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

I’ve always wanted male friends that I could be real intimate with and talk about important things with and be as affectionate with that person as I would be with a girl.

The incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in vibrating with the passion for unity. This note, which is essential to every form of mysticism, has even penetrated them so deeply that we find ourselves falling under a spell simply by uttering the names of their Gods.

OVOXO will always be there.

God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!

There are no rules when it comes to love.

At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I want, eat and drink whatever I want. As long as I just babble at the camera, other people will pay for it. It’s a gift.

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It’s rage, it’s creativity, it’s pain, it’s hurt, but it’s the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

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

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

Only God can look at somebody’s heart.

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

I want to marry Arline because I love her – which means I want to take care of her. That is all there is to it. I want to take care of her. I am anxious for the responsibilities and uncertainties of taking care of the girl I love.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.