This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural.

I never fall in love.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain – we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man’s self.

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

Free government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful.

The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but the Pope has the duty, in Christ’s name, to remind the rich to help the poor, to respect them, to promote them.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

A whole people with the ballot in their hands possess the most conclusive and unlimited power ever entrusted to humanity.

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

Pay attention, don’t let life go by you. Fall in love with the back of your cereal box.

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

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

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

They died hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.

The truth is God created us to have relationship with us. He wants to love us and take care of us, and He wants us to love Him. That’s where our walk with Christ has to start.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Ever since I first came here in 1963 to fight Henry Cooper, I have loved the people of England.

I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back.

In each soul, God loves and partly saves the whole world which that soul sums up in an incommunicable and particular way.

My wife and I love each other very much.

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

The important thing is to be in love with something.

Crazy players love me. I don’t know why.

Treat your children like the blessings they are or don’t have them at all.

God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.

My mother was and will always remain my greatest hero.

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.

There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

I love my friends and my past, and it’s made me who I am.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

Marriage is the death of hope.

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.

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

All mankind love a lover.

If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.

The 21st century is going to be the American century. Because we lead not only by the example of our power, but by the power of our example. That is the history of the journey of America.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

I realized the power of hip-hop. I realized how influential this music and this culture are.

The world’s biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.