Not necessity, not desire – no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything – health, food, a place to live, entertainment – they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

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

I’ve been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys.

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

If you look at the movie ‚Belly,‘ I identify with Sincere the most. I am a gangster. I love my lady to death. I’m not in the game for the wrong reasons. I’m not in the game for the glory. I’m in the game to survive so the people that I love could be straight. I’m a highly intelligent individual.

I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don’t just want to possess it, it will find you.

Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

Big stuff and little: learning how to order breakfast in a country where I don’t speak the language and haven’t been before – that’s really satisfying to me. I like that.

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

I love being a dad. I just love it.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

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

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.

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

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

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I’m upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.

I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.

There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.

Knowledge is power.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

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

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

I married my best friend that happens to be a girl.

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

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

Reputation is the cornerstone of power. Through reputation alone you can intimidate and win; once it slips, however, you are vulnerable, and will be attacked on all sides. Make your reputation unassailable.

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

Dear friends, we may well sing to our Beloved when it is near the time of our departure. It draws near, and as it approaches, we must not dread it, but rather thank God for it.

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that… it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man’s self.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we’ll fail, and sometimes we’ll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you’ll find support.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

I kind of love Cole Miller.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

The term ‚globalisation‘ is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

He who is contented is rich.

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

I don’t want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.

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.

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

My mother was and will always remain my greatest hero.

I’m pretty sure I don’t have any songs that are about how much I love someone. They’re all either about, like, ‚I hate you,‘ or ‚You make me hate me.‘

I’m happiest with my family around me.

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

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.