The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

Women – always in trouble with them, but can’t live without them.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

It’s fun to be hopelessly in love. It’s dangerous, but it’s fun.

I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.

No one loves the man whom he fears.

I met my husband before I became a star, and he doesn’t care about any of it.

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?

Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?… It is necessary to accompany them with mercy.

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.

I’m all about peace. I’m all about unity. I’m all about love.

Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since, when death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

What I’ve discovered is that in art, as in music, there’s a lot of truth-and then there’s a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It’s the moment that the audience falls in love.

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

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.

All knowledge or form conception is evoked through the medium of the eye, either in response to disturbances directly received on the retina or to their fainter secondary effects and reverberations. Other sense organs can only call forth feelings which have no reality of existence and of which no conception can be formed.

It is necessary to fall in love… if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.

Man’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

If I can give you one strong piece of advice, when you go away for that romantic weekend, whatever you do, do not accept or take the upgrade to the honeymoon suite.

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

I didn’t mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

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

When I worked on a magazine, I learned that there are many, many writers writing that can’t write at all; and they keep on writing all the cliches and bromides and 1890 plots, and poems about Spring and poems about Love, and poems they think are modern because they are done in slang or staccato style, or written with all the ‚i’s‘ small.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

‚Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

You can draw inspiration from anything. If you’re a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you’re casually talking to says something that makes you so mad – you can create an entire scenario around that.

I don’t know, I feel desperate when I sing. And I look desperate – it feels like I’m singing for my life, which makes me twitch, if that makes sense.

It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more.

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

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

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.

The one badge of Christian discipleship is not orthodoxy but love.

Hatred is settled anger.

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.

For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like – that’s a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.

We humans are self-absorbed by nature, and spend most of our time focusing inwardly on our emotions, on our wounds, on our fantasies.

I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

Of all nature’s gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

Truth, according to the Christian faith, is God’s love for us in Jesus Christ. Therefore, truth is a relationship.

The reason children accept discipline from their parents is because they know their parents love them.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

No one was more shocked or angry than I was when we didn’t find the weapons. I had a sickening feeling every time I thought about it. I still do.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.