Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

‚Harry Potter‘ gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain – we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

I am radically, insanely, nutty in love with Jesus!

I love New York. I’m a guy for whom a New York accent is a comforting thing.

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.

There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving – by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and – since there is no other metaphor – also the soul.

Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

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.

You can’t keep your mind on fighting when you’re thinking about a woman. You can’t keep your concentration. You feel like sleeping all the time.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die – and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Lovers often invest their first meetings with retrospective significance, as if to try to conjure the elements of the numinous out of the stubborn witness of the everyday.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one’s self.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

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

Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything. If you don’t write stories you love, you’ll never make it. If you don’t write stories that other people love, you’ll never make it.

I love my daddy. My daddy’s everything. I hope I can find a man that will treat me as good as my dad.

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.

To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

I searched for years I found no love. I’m sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. Christ teaches that God is love.

It’s probably the worst feeling in the world, when you’re deeply and madly in love with a woman and you know she’s not feeling you the same way, and you don’t know why.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you’ve got to let it grow.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ‚This is a misfortune‘ but ‚To bear this worthily is good fortune.‘

Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

I don’t do Shakespeare. I don’t talk in that kind of broken English.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

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.

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.

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.

Love is an interesting thing.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

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

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

We love things we love what they are.

If you had a million Shakespeares, could they write like a monkey?

Pay attention, don’t let life go by you. Fall in love with the back of your cereal box.

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

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.