We loved with a love that was more than love.

If you wished to be loved, love.

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

To do anything to a high level, it has to be total obsession.

Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.

I enjoy acting when you really hit it right.

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

My passion is bringing storylines around and constructing a full body of work rather than just a 16-bar verse.

For me, it’s about becoming a mogul, owning my own projects, and establishing myself as a funding producer. That’s what’s big to me. The movies and all that stuff are great, but the fact that I’m in a position to do what I want to do, however I want to do it and when I want to do it is bigger.

When I get up and work out, I’m working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It’s just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.

Art was, seriously, the only thing I’d ever wanted to own. It has always been for me a stable nourishment. I use it. It can change the way that I feel in the mornings.

Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

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.

Olympics for me is love, peace, united.

It’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well.

Not bragging by any means, but I could have done a lot of other stuff as far as working in films go and working in television… I had chances to do that stuff, but I like baseball, I really do.

I love our daughters more than anything in the world – more than life itself. And while that may not be the first thing that some folks want to hear from an Ivy-league-educated lawyer, it is truly who I am. So for me, being Mom-in-Chief is, and always will be, job number one.

It’s probably the worst feeling in the world, when you’re deeply and madly in love with a woman and you know she’s not feeling you the same way, and you don’t know why.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

I don’t intend to stop making music.

The way to know life is to love many things.

There’s not much time to unwind, but you know what, it’s because I love what I do. I look forward to the season. I look forward to playing games. It doesn’t ever feel like work.

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

If every man loves his mother, he’s going to treat the ladies right, with love and respect.

To be able to throw one’s self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman’s smile – that is happiness.

Not necessity, not desire – no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything – health, food, a place to live, entertainment – they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

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.

My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

I always have been an activist for things that were just authentically a part of my life, that I felt connected to.

When we’re falling in love or out of it, that’s when we most need a song that says how we feel. Yeah, I write a lot of songs about boys. And I’m very happy to do that.

Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

Lovers often invest their first meetings with retrospective significance, as if to try to conjure the elements of the numinous out of the stubborn witness of the everyday.

My mother fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56. She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold them in her arms. But my other children will never have the chance to know her and experience how loving and gracious she was.

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

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

I need drama in my life to keep making music.

Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don’t know why this one is different, but it is. You don’t know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can’t stop thinking about it.

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace marked on the heart of the element by the psychical convergence of the universe upon itself.

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

All I have to say is basically if performing, singing, acting, and dancing is what you want to do, then you just have to do it – no matter where it is.

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.

Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.

If I held you any closer I would be on the other side of you.