Mad or glad, Mr. Reagan is head over heels in love with Mrs. Reagan and can’t even imagine a world without her – He loves her.

Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

That’s what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he’s wise.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

If I’d married someone in show business, there’d be too much competition.

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.

Love is only one of many passions.

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion’s roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one’s own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.

I think the worst part about a breakup sometimes, if one could choose a worst part, would possibly be if you get out of a relationship, and you don’t recognize yourself because you changed a lot about you.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.

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

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

I just have a relationship with my imagination. It’s like my friend, almost.

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

Our Nation must defend the sanctity of marriage.

It’s fun to be hopelessly in love. It’s dangerous, but it’s fun.

It’s one of the few regrets of my presidency – that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better. There’s no doubt a president with the gifts of Lincoln or Roosevelt might have better bridged the divide, and I guarantee I’ll keep trying to be better so long as I hold this office.

I think I have had so much blessing – I’ve had my brother, who was brilliant – I think my family came closest to making a genius when they made my brother – Bailey was just all of that. He loved me.

When I think of the love I feel for each member of our family, I sense, to a slight degree, the love that our Heavenly Father bears for His children.

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

The heart is forever inexperienced.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

Women – always in trouble with them, but can’t live without them.

I have promised myself that I’m going to do everything I can for as long as I can.

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

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

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.

Driving up the value of the advertising is a big commitment for Microsoft.

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

I’m sure that at no point in my life could I ever have shown the kind of focus and discipline and commitment necessary to work a station at elBulli or Le Bernardin. No. That ain’t me.

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

I’m committed to the fight game.

My mami and papi love my music. They’re always listening to the radio waiting for one of my songs to come on. And when it does, they turn up the volume – and turn it back down when it’s over.

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet’s heart when caught and tangled in a woman’s body?

A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.

I would be married, but I’d have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

Being a good husband is like being a good stand-up comic – you need ten years before you can even call yourself a beginner.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background, and I think the greatest thing to do is to pray that God will give you love for them, and I do.

I was very worried about my mother, growing up – a lot. I do not want my children to be worried about me.

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

I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.

I love singing. I love it, and it doesn’t feel like a chore. It’s an expression.

Tell me I have to be somewhere, and I’ll be there 20 minutes early and stay there longer than anybody else. You hold up a lot of people if you’re not on time.

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.

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

Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery.

I’m married. My wife, Stella – a beautiful woman. She’s brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.