We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.

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.

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

Really, who you are is defined by the people who you know – not even the people that you know, but the people you spend time with and the people that you love and the people that you work with. I guess we show your friends in your profile, but that’s kind of different from the information you put in your profile.

Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?

I love New York. I’m a guy for whom a New York accent is a comforting thing.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

There are people who want to make men’s lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.

My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.

I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.

Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

All of the people in my life whom I consider to be close friends or colleagues are good thinkers.

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families – second families, perhaps I should say.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

As a father, safety is always a top of mind issue for me.

I have more friends in New York than Paris.

My mother did not like children.

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.

We love things we love what they are.

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

My father wasn’t a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher – one of those Victorians, hard as iron – but my dad was tough enough.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

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.

When you really don’t like a guy, they’re all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they’re no longer interested.

I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can’t be locked up with anyone for too long.

Me only have one ambition, y’know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together – black, white, Chinese, everyone – that’s all.

I’m attracted to women who are smart and funny and ambitious and have lives of their own and great families. Isn’t that what attracts anyone?

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion – towards ourselves and towards all living beings.

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

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

My son has died of AIDS.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

I’ve said this time and again: My greatest concern coming into the White House was making sure my girls came out whole and normal, and decent and kind, just like I would expect them to if we were living on the South Side of Chicago. And it takes work to keep White House life normal for the kids.

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

People like music when they’re in love, but they don’t need it as much. You need music when you’re missing someone or you’re pining for someone or you’re forgetting someone or you’re trying to process what just happened.

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.

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

I spend a lot of time just, you know, with my girlfriend and my dog. And I mean, we don’t have a lot of furniture in our house, so it’s really simple. And we’re trying to build products for everyone in the world, right. And you don’t want to get isolated to do that.

We must begin seeing other creatures as equal. Existence makes us all equal.

Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.

Rose Adams is a wonderful Christian woman who cared for my mother, Morrow Coffey Graham, in her last years of life.

My mom is American, so I was raised in her household in my formative years.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

It’s fun to be hopelessly in love. It’s dangerous, but it’s fun.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

I hate letting my teammates down. I know I’m not going to make every shot. Sometimes I try to make the right play, and if it results in a loss, I feel awful. I don’t feel awful because I have to answer questions about it. I feel awful in that locker room because I could have done something more to help my teammates win.

Hillary Clinton will always be there for you. And just remember – there’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other.

Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don’t mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That’s not power. That’s just corruption.

That summer after the draft was probably the most fun I’ve ever had, because all I had to do every day was wake up and go work out for four or five hours. I got to play some golf, which I love to do, too, and then got to hang out with my family.

I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.