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

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

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

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

My wife and I are very affectionate.

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

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

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Man is by nature a political animal.

I love Brad in every state.

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

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.

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.

They do not love that do not show their love.

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 natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

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

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

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

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.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

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

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.

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

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they’re already asleep.

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