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.

Only the really plain people know about love – the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.

Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, ‚I love you.‘

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy.

What is the use of writing plays, what is the use of writing anything, if there is not a will which finally moulds chaos itself into a race of gods.

Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn’t know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn’t even smell like smoke.

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

I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.

Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing – hopefully.

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

Love always ends differently and it always begins differently – especially with me.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

We were old sinners – but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore.

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age. Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.

The only answer to fear is faith in God, knowing He loves you unconditionally and individually.

Jesus never mistreated anyone just because they mistreated Him. He confronted them in a spirit of gentleness and then continued to love them.

To feel not only submitted but willing to be anything or nothing as the Lord wills it – this is, in truth, to sing a song to our Well Beloved.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

I was very worried about my mother, growing up – a lot. I do not want my children to be worried about me.

It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

I knew through the surgeries that he was on my side and that this wasn’t something where I was gonna feel less of a woman, because my husband wasn’t gonna let that happen.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

I wanted to imbue Ziggy with real flesh and blood and muscle, and it was imperative that I find Ziggy and be him.

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.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that justifies this goodness and this love?

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.

There’s nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It’s a thing no married man knows anything about.

There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving – by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.

I always wanted a family.

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you’d would wake up times and hope that the next day you’d be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.

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.

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

Once I knew only darkness and stillness… my life was without past or future… but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

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

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions – for the fun of it – then one day you’ll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

Every time I come to Europe, I’m just as excited as I was my very first time, which was many, many years ago. I love that part of the world, and I especially love the fans.

If you wished to be loved, love.

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love – first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

For me to talk with Obama and the conversation I had with him, I was letting him know that me and my fans have a special connection, and it’s love, and I believe that love is the answer.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

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 was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Power does not change you, it unmasks you.