Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

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

Politics doesn’t make strange bedfellows – marriage does.

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we’re all sweating it – when we’re worried that the bill won’t pass, and it seems like all is lost – Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward… with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

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

Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It’s the magic sauce.

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

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

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since, when death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God.

Where there is love there is life.

I’m not always going to say things the perfect way, the right way. But I’m going to say how I feel.

A woman’s heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.

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.

Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

My mother loved children – she would have given anything if I had been one.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

I really learned to sing in church, I think, really with emotion.

I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman’s skillet and the man’s ax-helve.

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend’s folly.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

There are two kinds of people in this world. ‚I‘ people and ‚we‘ people. I’ve always tried to be a ‚we‘ person.

Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

I only act from my heart.

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

Love… it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

When I think of the love I feel for each member of our family, I sense, to a slight degree, the love that our Heavenly Father bears for His children.

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

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

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

It’s always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you’re seeing the most beautiful thing on God’s Earth.

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet’s heart when caught and tangled in a woman’s body?

A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That’s where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It’s having backbone.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

Nicki Minaj, I’m at MTV. I’m going to be honest with you: I love you. I like you. I want you; I want you to be mine. Only reason I’m not telling you this face to face is because I understand that you’re busy.

I don’t want to get into it, but if you know someone, it doesn’t mean you agree with everything they say or they do.

As long as the people don’t fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn’t stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful… but so frightening.

I’ve never been a boyfriend kind of girl.

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

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

The fact is that when you do something from your heart, you leave a heart print.

We’re all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?