Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age. Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.

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.

I love Brad in every state.

When I was a kid, I thought movies just came from air. I thought they just appeared.

Ever since I first came here in 1963 to fight Henry Cooper, I have loved the people of England.

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

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

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

When I get married, it’ll be no secret.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.

When we’re falling in love or out of it, that’s when we most need a song that says how we feel. Yeah, I write a lot of songs about boys. And I’m very happy to do that.

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

There’s nothing better than having a baby. I’ve always loved children. I used to work summers at the YMCA and be in charge of, like, 30 preschool kids. I knew that when I had a child, I’d be overwhelmed, and it’s true… I can’t tell you how much my attitude has changed since we’ve got Frances. Holding my baby is the best drug in the world.

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn’t enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

I don’t know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens.

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally. So I get up early in the morning, 4 o’clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that’s enough. In the afternoon, I run. The next day, the dream will continue.

Intelligent people should learn from their experiences. With people on the street, the bad experience has beaten them.

If music be the food of love, play on.

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

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

You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don’t accept it, it’s their loss.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

It doesn’t take long to become aware of the presence of the CIA in Laos.

Speak low, if you speak love.

I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.

It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.

Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

Never have we stolen the intelligences of other peoples. On the contrary, in Cuba we have trained tens of thousands of doctors and other top-level professionals, for free, in order to send them back to their own countries.

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

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

The truth is God created us to have relationship with us. He wants to love us and take care of us, and He wants us to love Him. That’s where our walk with Christ has to start.

People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like – that’s a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.

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.

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

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.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.

We didn’t crumble after 9/11. We didn’t falter after the Boston Marathon. But we’re America. Americans will never, ever stand down. We endure. We overcome. We own the finish line.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.

The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it’s almost impossible to stamp out.

Man is the most intelligent of the animals – and the most silly.

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.