The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

Man is the only animal that blushes – or needs to.

Most of the people that I deal with are human. So I’ve had a lot of experience with that.

Human self-understanding changes with time, and so also human consciousness deepens.

It’s hard for anybody who’s been with me not to feel starved for affection when I’m making love to my ideas. Maybe it’s not meant for me to settle down and be married.

The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes – or just by staring into space.

If I love you, I show you I love you every day. Little things, big things.

A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.

My wife and I are very affectionate.

A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.

No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world… to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

I think that you can love people without it being the great love.

If I held you any closer I would be on the other side of you.

All you need is love.

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Mad or glad, Mr. Reagan is head over heels in love with Mrs. Reagan and can’t even imagine a world without her – He loves her.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

A cat is only itself, representative of the strong forces of life that won’t let go.

Love… it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

I love hugging people. I still hug everybody in my meet-and-greet lines.

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

Man is by nature a political animal.

Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops… If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.

I’ve always wanted male friends that I could be real intimate with and talk about important things with and be as affectionate with that person as I would be with a girl.

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who’ll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you’re in the wrong house, that’s what it means.

We all have our imperfections. But I’m human, and you know, it’s important to concentrate on other qualities besides outer beauty.

I’m Machiavelli’s offspring, I’m the king of New York, king of the coast, one hand, I juggle them both.

Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.

Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.

We object not to the narration of the deeds of our unregenerate condition, but to the mode in which it is too often done. Let sin have its monument, but let it be a heap of stones cast by the hands of execration – not a mausoleum erected by the hands of affection.

Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow.

Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action, which produces further confusion, further misery.

To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

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 true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

You are Mrs. Reagan because Mr. Reagan loves you with all his heart.

Language is one component of the human cognitive capacity which happens to be fairly amenable to enquiry. So we know a good deal about that.

At the age when other children, I imagine, experience their first ‚feeling‘ for a person, or for art, or for religion, I was affectionate, good, and even pious: by that I mean that under the influence of my mother, I was devoted to the Child Jesus.

I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.

I definitely don’t think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.

Love is trembling happiness.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

Speak low, if you speak love.

I love Brad in every state.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it’s because he’s so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

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

I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.

I love Manchester. Everyone knows that – I have said it many times. Manchester is in my heart.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

They do not love that do not show their love.