Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

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.

I am a Christian, and the Bible teaches me to forgive.

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s.

I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair.

If people wonder, yes, Hillary Clinton is my friend. She has been a friend to me and Barack and Malia and Sasha, and Bill and Chelsea have been embracing and supportive from the very day my husband took the oath of office.

For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I’m no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

That’s what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he’s wise.

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.

When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.

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 grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see – or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone… Bad food is fake food… food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people’s ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives.

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

My partner Donald Trump says that married couples should always have a prenuptial agreement. True, a prenuptial is important if one partner is much richer than the other before marriage, but Kim and I don’t have one.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

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.

There is no such thing as a lovers‘ oath.

I have no hostility to nature, but a child’s love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

Sometimes I’ve been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.

When you make a mistake and the devil comes and tells you ‚You’re no good,‘ you don’t have to take on the guilt and condemnation he wants to put on you. No! You can immediately confess your mistake to God, thank Him for forgiving you and cleansing you with the blood of Jesus, and move forward in the victory of His grace and forgiveness.

Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can’t be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.

If I’m not in love, if I’m not with a long-term companion, I cannot be happy.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

If you get down and quarell everyday, you’re saying prayers to the devil, I say.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

Keeping score is for games, not friendships.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

One of the things I’ve told men over and over and over and over is if you’re being rejected by all the women that you approach, it’s not the women!

I have an urge to communicate. I think I’m a change from what it would be like dating a normal guy who doesn’t talk too much.

Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.

Of all nature’s gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

‚Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

I love Manchester. Everyone knows that – I have said it many times. Manchester is in my heart.

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.

I don’t think there’s an option for me to fall in love slowly or at medium speed. I either do, or I don’t.

Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can – that is their secret.

As a sportsperson, the best thing is people recognising you and loving you for what you do. For me, glamour is 100 people in the hotel feeling happy to see you.

Every time I come to Europe, I’m just as excited as I was my very first time, which was many, many years ago. I love that part of the world, and I especially love the fans.