When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.

Heavenly Father loves every one of His children. After all, He is their Father.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

I’ve been writing poems since I was in the Navy – to Rosalynn. I found I could say things in poems that I never could in prose. Deeper, more personal things. I could write a poem about my mother that I could never tell my mother. Or feelings about being on a submarine that I would have been too embarrassed to share with fellow submariners.

You can’t forgive without loving. And I don’t mean sentimentality. I don’t mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, ‚I forgive. I’m finished with it.‘

I had some eyeglasses. I was walking down the street when suddenly the prescription ran out.

I don’t have to ‚freedom-kiss‘ my wife when what I really want to do is French-kiss her.

I knew I was blessed with a gift of having both parents.

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

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.

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing – hopefully.

I always wanted to be loved.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

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.

If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn’t swim.

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.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

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.

I’m pretty sure I don’t have any songs that are about how much I love someone. They’re all either about, like, ‚I hate you,‘ or ‚You make me hate me.‘

You don’t want to live your life and then meet someone. You want to share your life with someone. That’s what I’m missing right now.

If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

‚Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion’s roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

You want to do good things, and once you’ve done a couple of good things in a row, you think ‚Well gee, let’s not mess this up.‘ But I am lucky at this point that I have something I really love to do, and it completely holds my attention. I never feel frustrated by it.

The knighthood was a tremendous honour, I don’t dismiss it. But I feel embarrassed by the flowery, theatrical stuff that goes with being an actor.

I’m kind of a big kettle. It takes time to get boiled, but then I’m always hot.

Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.

Good writing is like a windowpane.

Delhi means everything to me. This city has given me everything, and I love it.

I don’t want enemies. I want friends, and I want them in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and loving whoever they want to.

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

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

Anywhere I go, there is always an incredible crowd that follows me. In Rome, as I land at the airport, even the men kiss me. I love Rome.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

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

Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

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.

It’s so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that’s what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

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.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

What I’ve discovered is that in art, as in music, there’s a lot of truth-and then there’s a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It’s the moment that the audience falls in love.

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Maria is the best reason to come home.

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.