Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother – but… when she became our child, the affection came.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

In my house I’m the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.

We can’t form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

I’m happiest with my family around me.

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

My experiences in life are getting bigger and better. The more stuff I do, the more stuff I talk about – having kids, traveling, going through relationship problems, dealing with things in my own family. All that stuff builds character.

It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.

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.

When your mother asks, ‚Do you want a piece of advice?‘ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

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

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o‘ the flatterer.

Let it be our delight to find our society in the circle of which Jesus is the center, and let us make those our friends who are the friends of Jesus.

All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader.

There are two kinds of people in this world. ‚I‘ people and ‚we‘ people. I’ve always tried to be a ‚we‘ person.

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

He didn’t come out of my belly, but my God, I’ve made his bones, because I’ve attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I’m so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

He that has not got a wife is not yet a complete man.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

If you like a person you say ‚let’s go into business together.‘ Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.

The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world… Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

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.

No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

I am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year. I don’t doubt that I shall have perfect crowds of admirers at that age. Then how I shall delight to make them await my bidding, and with what delight shall I witness their suspense while I make my final decision.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

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

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies – or else? The chain reaction of evil – hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars – must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

I’ve learned that we all change constantly. It’s rare to find that person who is growing with you in the same way at the same time, who encourages you to grow.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

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

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

Man’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

Love is not consolation. It is light.

I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals.

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.