Love is too young to know what conscience is.

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

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

It’s hard for anybody who’s been with me not to feel starved for affection when I’m making love to my ideas. Maybe it’s not meant for me to settle down and be married.

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

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.

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

I don’t keep people around me that aren’t family. You don’t get to stay. Unless you’re eating at the table with us, you’re not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.

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

I love sleep; it’s my favorite.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

We are so very ‚umble.

I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all.

Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone… Bad food is fake food… food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people’s ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives.

Any man who doesn’t love his mama can’t be no friend of mine.

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

I love food.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that justifies this goodness and this love?

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

For me, one of the toughest things about Valentine’s Day is that it gets geared up as the day to profess your love. See, T-E-S-T – that’s a bad word that doesn’t go with L-O-V-E.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

I love tango, and I used to dance when I was young.

For me to talk with Obama and the conversation I had with him, I was letting him know that me and my fans have a special connection, and it’s love, and I believe that love is the answer.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

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

When you face a ‚performance‘ that might provoke the ‚I’m scared‘ response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It’s more fun than ‚Dancing with the Stars!‘

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

I believe when it comes to love, there’s something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don’t think I have a pattern.

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

When you are young you tend to do so many things that are not needed. When you get experience, you know what exactly what works for you and you tend to do things that you want.

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

Nothing can come of nothing.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

I’ve been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she’ll kill me.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Adults are obsolete children.

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few.

Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.

‚Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

You can write a song about being in love with someone, but you don’t have to be in love with anyone.

God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we’re small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.

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.

Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation.

I don’t care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.