Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

We’re hardwired for connection. There’s no arguing with the bioscience. But we can want it so badly we’re trying to hot-wire it.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

They died hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

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

All you need is love.

I absolutely adore Christmas.

I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other – and we still are.

I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it’s a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.

He who hath many friends hath none.

Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

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

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness and moderation is certain and durable.

I’ve had no contact with my daughter for years. That’s her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don’t want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.

If someone is right for you, you’ll know it.

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.

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.

A family looks for ways to support and inspire one another.

For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

Women don’t try to use me.

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

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.

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

Anywhere I go, there is always an incredible crowd that follows me. In Rome, as I land at the airport, even the men kiss me. I love Rome.

To me, if you’re trying to impress a girl, get a date, they’re gonna like that more because you’re a confident guy. That’s what it comes down to.

My wife and I don’t compete. We know each other’s preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That’s what friends do.

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature’s gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

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.

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

Why should poetry have to make sense?

Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It’s also the dangerous part and it’s an ugly emotion that hurts.

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.

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.

Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

My friends are my estate.

Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

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

Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I’m writing about New York.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.