There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Be nice to your children. After all, they are going to choose your nursing home.

I think women want freedom. They want to be empowered. They want hope. They want love; they want all the things that I want, and I’m not afraid to say those things and act on them, and I think that’s why they identify with me.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world… Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

Then, when I’m in these relationships with people who are also creative, or creative in their own way, what happens is the attraction is initially there and it’s all unicorns and rainbows. And then they hate me.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

My fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids‘ reaction to that divorce.

My mother loved children – she would have given anything if I had been one.

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

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

If people wonder, yes, Hillary Clinton is my friend. She has been a friend to me and Barack and Malia and Sasha, and Bill and Chelsea have been embracing and supportive from the very day my husband took the oath of office.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.

You can’t be in love with a Google search.

We do not judge the people we love.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

Where the mind goes, the man follows.

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

Men who think that a woman’s past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.

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.

You gotta understand: I believe a woman should praise the man, the king. If you holding it down for your woman, I feel like the woman should praise. And the man should praise the queen.

We are not actually equal – humanity – if we are not allowed to freely love one another.

‚Harry Potter‘ gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn’t enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

There’s love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we’re alone in our heads.

My wife and I don’t compete. We know each other’s preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That’s what friends do.

There are some people who need to wear a label round their necks to show that they are Christians at all, or else we might mistake them for sinners, their actions are so like those of the ungodly.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

I could fall in love with a sumo wrestler if he told stories and made me laugh. Obviously, it would be easier if someone was African-American and lived next door and went to the same church. Because then I wouldn’t have to translate.

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

They might not need me; but they might. I’ll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.

You don’t want to live your life and then meet someone. You want to share your life with someone. That’s what I’m missing right now.

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it’s to have any meaning in this world – and stop being its apologist.

A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I’m writing about New York.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

I can imagine it’s hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn’t know.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

I never thought I’d have children; I never thought I’d be in love, I never thought I’d meet the right person. Having come from a broken home – you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don’t look for them.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.

The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.

He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.

I don’t think there’s an option for me to fall in love slowly or at medium speed. I either do, or I don’t.