Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.

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

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don’t accept it, it’s their loss.

They are resilient children, but they are children, and as much as they need help to understand the hard truths in life, they also need what we all need – protection and love.

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

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

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

One of the most terrible feelings in the world is knowing that someone else doesn’t like you. Especially when you don’t know what you’ve done to deserve it.

Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

Is science of any value? I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire.

I am radically, insanely, nutty in love with Jesus!

Politics doesn’t make strange bedfellows – marriage does.

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

The key to winning is choosing to do God’s will and loving others with all you’ve got.

I love the sea.

My mom, she was a very, very soft woman. It was hard for her to yell or even curse. But when it came to fighting for her kids, she found a strength she didn’t always know she had.

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?

Logically, harmony must come from the heart… Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.

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.

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas of life on earth.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

To every soul that knows how to pray, to every soul that by faith comes to Jesus, the true mercy seat, divine sovereignty wears no dark and terrible aspect but is full of love.

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.

Women don’t try to use me.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

Anxiety and spiritual searching have been consistent themes with me, and that figures into my worldview. But I tend to make my songs sound like relationship songs.

When the people you love are gone, you’re alone.

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

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

I’ve never been a boyfriend kind of girl.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

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

Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

Men and women do think differently, and frankly, we don’t understand each other. Not at all! But that’s what makes relationships so amazing.

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds, they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material.

To be clear: we have fights and problems like any other couple.

In each soul, God loves and partly saves the whole world which that soul sums up in an incommunicable and particular way.

Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can’t be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

Love is not consolation. It is light.

Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

My first popular book, ‚A Brief History of Time,‘ aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand.