There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.

Actually, you have to be a little bit in love with your leading man and vice versa. If you’re going to portray love, you have to feel it. You can’t do it any other way. But you don’t carry it beyond the set.

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

I always wanted a great love affair: something that feels big and full, really honest, and enough. No moment should feel slight, false, or a little off. For me, it had to be everything.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin‘ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.

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

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

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

I love the attention but I don’t like too much of it.

Wives are people who feel they don’t dance enough.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work.

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

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

It’s amazing how confused and distracted and misdirected so many people are.

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

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

Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor, I thought, gives to the world creations which are palpable, which live and work.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

We teach that God’s love for His children is infinite.

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 do not judge the people we love.

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

I love food.

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

In a country with millions of people and cars going everywhere, the enemy is going to get a car bomb out there once in awhile.

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

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

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author’s world.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

Sheep, like people, are ungovernable when hungry.

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

What keeps me motivated is love and passion.

I never fall in love.

I thank God I’m myself and for the life I’m given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

Fear is real, but so is love.

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.

As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you.

The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.

In acting, you have to pull from real-life situations, from people, to help develop a character.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

Tina Turner is someone that I admire, because she made her strength feminine and sexy. Marilyn Monroe, because she was a curvy woman. I’m drawn to things that have the same kind of silhouettes as what she wore because our bodies are similar.

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

Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.

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

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

Leaders of the Church have often been Narcissus, flattered and sickeningly excited by their courtiers. The court is the leprosy of the papacy.

A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether there is any love for the church in the hearts of those who pay so much attention to the scandals.

No, we don’t own our children. Our parental privilege is to love them, to lead them, and to let them go.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?