My wife and I are very affectionate.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

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

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.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.

I only want my work to make people happy.

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.

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

The child inside of you knows how to take things as they come, how to deal most effectively and happily with everything and everyone it encounters on this planet. If you can recapture that childlike essence of your being, you can stay ‚forever young at heart.‘

Sometimes, you might meet somebody that you love that’s turning into a ‚they.‘ My key is invite them to Miami and take them to the ocean and let them jump off the boat in the ocean, on the sand bar, and cleanse off and pray and then go take a shower, and hopefully the ‚they‘ is out of you.

The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but the Pope has the duty, in Christ’s name, to remind the rich to help the poor, to respect them, to promote them.

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.

I took the vow of celibacy in 1906. I had not shared my thoughts with my wife until then, but only consulted her at the time of making the vow. She had no objection.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

I have discovered that my interest in my dear pupil, Mabel, has ripened into a far deeper feeling than that of mere friendship. In fact, I know that I have learned to love her very sincerely.

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

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

A true man hates no one.

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.

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

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

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

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

Our love, our gratitude, our admiration for our men and women in uniform, our veterans and their families – all of that is bigger than any one party or any one election.

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don’t know if I’ll ever be as good a dad as my dad.

The Bible is clear – God’s definition of marriage is between a man and a woman.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

I’ve learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.

I love life because what more is there?

Number of people have said to me, after hearing your thinking, their mind becomes much more happier.

I have kind of a funny relationship with movies. I don’t have to see the whole movie to get an impression of it or to let it have an influence on me.

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

When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it’s been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can’t stop thinking about.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can’t have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I’d rather not be in a cage. I’d rather be dead. And it’s real simple. And I think it’s not that uncommon.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

I would never win an award for not loving pizza.

Fight with a happy heart.

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

If I’m not in love, if I’m not with a long-term companion, I cannot be happy.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

When I give somebody something and see their face, it just makes me so happy.