Love… it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

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

My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.

It’s nice to say let’s be bipartisan. But we’re a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.

The important thing is to be in love with something.

The ultimate connection is when you are connected to the creator of the universe.

The sadness of the women’s movement is that they don’t allow the necessity of love. See, I don’t personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

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

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who’ll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you’re in the wrong house, that’s what it means.

What we have found in this country, and maybe we’re more aware of it now, is one problem that we’ve had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.

At one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv or in Medina and you could see a person come in, black, white, it didn’t matter. You said, ‚That’s an American‘ because there’s a readiness to smile and to talk to people.

Contrary to popular belief, I don’t spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I’ve learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that’s what kids are playing. That’s what people are talking about.

I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

We never love a person, but only qualities.

The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Love always ends differently and it always begins differently – especially with me.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

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

A war is a horrible thing, but it’s also a unifier of countries.

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me.

I live in Puerto Rico, my family lives in Puerto Rico, my friends. What happens in Puerto Rico matters to me.

It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.

Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it.

Ever since I dated a woman, I know what it is to grab a curve on a woman’s body. Skinny’s not fine when the lights are low.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

If every man loves his mother, he’s going to treat the ladies right, with love and respect.

I love New York. I’m a guy for whom a New York accent is a comforting thing.

I felt like my favorite writers have almost musical hooks in their work, whether it’s poetry or a hook at the end of a chapter that makes you want to read the next one. And I think that my favorite writers definitely have something musical about what they do, in saying something so relatable and universal and so simple.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

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

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one’s being added to that being.

A good thing to remember is somebody’s got it a lot worse than we do.

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.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing – hopefully.

‚Love Story‘ is actually about a guy that I almost dated. But when I introduced him to my family and my friends, they all said they didn’t like him. All of them!

A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.

My readers – and I get 400 emails for a day, my readers normally they say, well, you understand me, and I answer, you do understand me also. We are in the same level.

If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge? We shouldn’t marginalise people for this. They must be integrated into society.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.

Love is trembling happiness.

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.

You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.