Really showing love requires more than just words.

I think women want freedom. They want to be empowered. They want hope. They want love; they want all the things that I want, and I’m not afraid to say those things and act on them, and I think that’s why they identify with me.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair.

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

God to me is love.

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.

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don’t know if it’s possible forever and ever.

It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.

He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.

I don’t eat with beautiful women alone.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

To be loved is very demoralizing.

Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

‚Harry Potter‘ gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.

I don’t like cream puff, corny guys. Usually, they are the nice guys, the ones that won’t hurt you. They’ll pull out the chair for you and the whole nine yards. Everything is perfect and boring.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

After all, life hasn’t much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Every once in a while I get the highly inappropriate proposal which is like, ‚Wow, Really! You don’t even know me and I don’t know you at all, and you want that to happen? Tonight? Ok, I get off work at 7.30.‘

Everyone has been in love, at some point or another.

Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.

Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston, I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song, and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, ‚Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.‘

The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I’m willing to show you. In you, it’s courage and daring. In me, it’s weakness.

When you have kids, you see life through different eyes. You feel love more deeply and are maybe a little more compassionate. It’s inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting.

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

My mother loved children – she would have given anything if I had been one.

A woman can’t be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can’t do it by herself.

Motives reveal why we do what we do, which is actually more important to God than what we’re doing.

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it’s cool that happens.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

A family shares hardships and a connected history.

Crankiness is at the essence of all comedy. My wife and I were discussing the different types of cranky. There’s entertaining cranky, annoying cranky, angry cranky.

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

I have a very good family. I’m very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It’s one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author’s world.

We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

God wants to help us… He loves us… we are His children. But He will not force His help on us at any time. He sees us when we struggle and fight and complain our way through things. And I believe it breaks His heart, when all we have to do is ask Him for help.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

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

Men exist for the sake of one another.

You don’t want to live your life and then meet someone. You want to share your life with someone. That’s what I’m missing right now.

A friend is nothing but a known enemy.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can’t ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment’s notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow – that’s vulnerability.

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.