You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or ‚our‘ country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

For me to talk with Obama and the conversation I had with him, I was letting him know that me and my fans have a special connection, and it’s love, and I believe that love is the answer.

One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.

Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.

I’m an emotional person.

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

Marriage is the death of hope.

I left Mainz after 18 years and thought, ‚Next time, I will work with a little less of my heart.‘ I said that because we all cried for a week. The city gave us a goodbye party, and it lasted a week.

After all, life hasn’t much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

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.

Men want to make women happy.

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.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Women don’t try to use me.

Those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

I’m a girls‘ girl. I have guy friends, but the problem with having guy friends is, like, I always get linked to them, and they’ll end up in a slideshow of people I’ve apparently dated on the Internet.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

He that overvalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.

Gravity must be caused by an Agent acting constantly according to certain laws, but whether this Agent be material or immaterial I have left to the consideration of my readers.

What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.

I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.

I have a family, loving aunts, and a good home. No, on the surface I seem to have everything except my one true friend. All I think about when I’m with friends is having a good time. I can’t bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. We don’t seem to be able to get any closer, and that’s the problem.

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

I can’t go out with a Republican.

I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

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

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

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.

I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.

The smaller the planets are, they are, other things being equal, of so much the greater density; for so the powers of gravity on their several surfaces come nearer to equality. They are likewise, other things being equal, of the greater density, as they are nearer to the sun.

The one badge of Christian discipleship is not orthodoxy but love.

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

I listen to music that is of our time and I just get angry.

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

It’s true that I’ve never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.

Love always ends differently and it always begins differently – especially with me.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

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

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.