When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it’s been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can’t stop thinking about.

My mother taught children to love to dance.

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one’s self.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Life loves the liver of it.

I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I’ll probably… drop writing children’s books and become a political cartoonist again.

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.

The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I’ll never be hands-on on anything except software.

Shakespeare – I was very influenced – still am – by Shakespeare. I couldn’t believe that a white man in the 16th century could so know my heart.

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

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

My love is a hummingbird sitting that quiet moment on the bough, as the same cat crouches.

I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age. Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.

I love being on stage, I love being able to tell a story, I love the fact that the audience listens and laughs at it. It makes me happy, and it’s what I live for.

Football is all about fans.

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

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.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

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 we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

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

High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.

I’m gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell ‚em out of the trunk of my car. I’m that kind of musician and singer.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

When you face a ‚performance‘ that might provoke the ‚I’m scared‘ response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It’s more fun than ‚Dancing with the Stars!‘

I never had to choose a subject – my subject rather chose me.

I love to play. And fortunately, I don’t know a lot of musicians that suck. I know a bunch of really good ones, and they’re always up for playing.

The sadness of the women’s movement is that they don’t allow the necessity of love. See, I don’t personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

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

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

I’ve always loved the fans in Scotland and have a little Scottish blood of my own.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

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

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

In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.

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

I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn’t think I could do anything else. So I read and read and wrote short stories and dreamed of escape.

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.

In God’s family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.

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.

There is no such thing as a lovers‘ oath.

The generous Critic fann’d the Poet’s fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.

Actually, you have to be a little bit in love with your leading man and vice versa. If you’re going to portray love, you have to feel it. You can’t do it any other way. But you don’t carry it beyond the set.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

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

There’s nothing better than having a baby. I’ve always loved children. I used to work summers at the YMCA and be in charge of, like, 30 preschool kids. I knew that when I had a child, I’d be overwhelmed, and it’s true… I can’t tell you how much my attitude has changed since we’ve got Frances. Holding my baby is the best drug in the world.

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 have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

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

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on, whereas I, in my 20s, was reading everything. Everything seemed important. But they were only interested in the writers they admired when they were young, and I didn’t understand it then, but now, now I understand it.

People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like – that’s a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.

The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.