My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

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

I take inspiration from everyone and everything. I’m inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers.

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it – and sometimes three.

You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.

That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

I was fortunate and I was lucky that I had a couple of people in my life who cared about me. I had good, loving parents.

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

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.

In this great country, we celebrate success. We don’t want to penalize those who have done well.

Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

You would think that a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

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

It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

Love and desire are the spirit’s wings to great deeds.

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

My mother was a full-time mother. She didn’t have much of her own career, her own life, her own experiences… everything was for her children. I will never be as good a mother as she was. She was just grace incarnate. She was the most generous, loving – she’s better than me.

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

We’re not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.

We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

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.

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.

When I won the first Grammy, there was no other feeling like that feeling. It just made me feel like I came so far, like that was just a dream a few years before that, and then it was happening right then.

If I love you, I show you I love you every day. Little things, big things.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.

Jesus is a divine guest inside of you all the time – one who loves, understands, sees and hears you. He wants to live in oneness with you… to be the centerpiece of everything you do.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

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

I absolutely adore Christmas.

The heart is forever inexperienced.

As a soccer player, I wanted an FA Cup winner’s medal. As an actor you want an Oscar. As a chef it’s three-Michelin’s stars, there’s no greater than that. So pushing yourself to the extreme creates a lot of pressure and a lot of excitement, and more importantly, it shows on the plate.

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

Creative people don’t behave very well generally. If you’re looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you’re gonna be depressed real fast. I don’t have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She’s my first priority.

I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Nicki Minaj, I’m at MTV. I’m going to be honest with you: I love you. I like you. I want you; I want you to be mine. Only reason I’m not telling you this face to face is because I understand that you’re busy.

Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.

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.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

It’s a great, great experience to finally get the reception that you know you rightfully deserve.