You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author’s world.

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don’t know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

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

Whatever the reviewers feel about ‚The Casual Vacancy‘, it is what I wanted it to be, and you can’t say fairer than that as a writer.

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

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

There is a sufficiency in the world for man’s need but not for man’s greed.

If someone is right for you, you’ll know it.

God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we’re small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.

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

I don’t like two stories. I like one story. I never grew up with stairs. I like to stick to what I know.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

Jesus is a divine guest inside of you all the time – one who loves, understands, sees and hears you. He wants to live in oneness with you… to be the centerpiece of everything you do.

We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.

When people get married young, you don’t really understand the true definition of marriage.

A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

I love sleep; it’s my favorite.

I am who I am today because of my mother.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

I wasn’t a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn’t written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor.

How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that justifies this goodness and this love?

Those whom the gods love grow young.

A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action, which produces further confusion, further misery.

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

Do you not realize that the love the Father bestowed on the perfect Christ He now bestows on you?

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

I dote on his very absence.

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies – or else? The chain reaction of evil – hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars – must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.

There’s a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more.

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 world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts. A numerous class of men are painfully astonished whenever they find anything, living or dead, in all God’s universe, which they cannot eat or render in some way what they call useful to themselves.

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

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.

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

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

I’ve told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn’t kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.

The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it.

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

Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.

To feel not only submitted but willing to be anything or nothing as the Lord wills it – this is, in truth, to sing a song to our Well Beloved.

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.

All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.

I never liked Hans Christian Andersen because I knew he was always getting at me.

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

The important thing is to be in love with something.

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

Crazy players love me. I don’t know why.

If you like it you should enjoy it! Moderation in everything. If there’s things you really love, you should enjoy. You get one life, so you should enjoy it.

Sing me a new song; the world is transfigured; all the Heavens are rejoicing.

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin‘ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

There is not a truth existing which I fear… or would wish unknown to the whole world.

I was born into the world as the king of truth for the salvation of the world.

I’m the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren’t no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn’t know about them.