This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

If you like it you should enjoy it! Moderation in everything. If there’s things you really love, you should enjoy. You get one life, so you should enjoy it.

I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don’t buy a single vote more than is necessary. I’ll be damned if I’m going to pay for a landslide.

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.

As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.

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

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions; he had money as well.

God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we’re small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.

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

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.

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

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

I love story songs because I’ve always loved books.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

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

It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.

For me, one of the toughest things about Valentine’s Day is that it gets geared up as the day to profess your love. See, T-E-S-T – that’s a bad word that doesn’t go with L-O-V-E.

He didn’t come out of my belly, but my God, I’ve made his bones, because I’ve attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I’m so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I’d be a damn‘ fool if they weren’t.

They are resilient children, but they are children, and as much as they need help to understand the hard truths in life, they also need what we all need – protection and love.

The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die – and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

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

I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all.

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.

Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.

One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

We were born with a capacity to grow, love, marry, and form families.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

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.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

I know I’m talented, but I wasn’t put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but it’s not where it begins and ends.

The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.

My sorrow, when she’s here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don’t know if it’s possible forever and ever.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

I have done for my country, and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God – my daughter to my country.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.

Oh, my mama was awesome. Very strict, overreligious, loved the Lord, loved rules. But she had to be that way because of where we were growing up, the neighborhood I was from.

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

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

Intimates are predestined.

Giving is just one way of expressing that God has been good to you and will continue to do so through your being good to others.

Love is the most powerful thing in the world, and you know, what love brings is joy.

I’m a human being and I fall in love and sometimes I don’t have control of every situation.

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

The funny thing is people won’t let me pay for things. I’ll be in a restaurant and the manager will say, ‚Oh no, it’s on the house.‘