What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

When we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.

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

I love Notting Hill and Westbourne Grove – there is so much life and vitality around Portobello and Ladbroke Grove. It has come up a lot since I started Virgin more than 40 years ago, but there is so much character.

Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.

I love to flirt, and I’ve never met a man I didn’t like.

A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.

You can’t imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.

Ageing’s alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.

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

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that’s how we’ve got to live.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

Thou know’st the first time that we smell the air we wawl and cry. When we are born we cry, that we are come to this great state of fools.

There’s a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more.

The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I’m just not close enough to get the job done.

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

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

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

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

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it’s like they didn’t fade away at all.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

Nature study will show you how full of beautiful and wonderful things God has made the world for you to enjoy. Be contented with what you have got and make the best of it. Look on the bright side of things instead of the gloomy one.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.

Fame will go by and, so long, I’ve had you, fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experience, but that’s not where I live.

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

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

If life is a checker game, someone else is moving the pieces. It isn’t us. Don’t be surprised by amazing coincidences. There are no accidents. Consider, as I learned to do, the incredible interconnectedness of all of life.

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

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go – that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.

I knew through the surgeries that he was on my side and that this wasn’t something where I was gonna feel less of a woman, because my husband wasn’t gonna let that happen.

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.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you’d would wake up times and hope that the next day you’d be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

When I was a boy we didn’t wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner.

I believe life is an intelligent thing: that things aren’t random.

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.

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

I think the perfection of love is that it’s not perfect.