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

I’m a human being and I fall in love and sometimes I don’t have control of every situation.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

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.

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

When I get married, it’ll be no secret.

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

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.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Everything is clearer when you’re in love.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.

Hate has no place in the house of God.

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

It’s hard for anybody who’s been with me not to feel starved for affection when I’m making love to my ideas. Maybe it’s not meant for me to settle down and be married.

A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.

I love singing. I love it, and it doesn’t feel like a chore. It’s an expression.

‚Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.

The mind of the painter must resemble a mirror, which always takes the colour of the object it reflects and is completely occupied by the images of as many objects as are in front of it.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

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

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

They are resilient children, but they are children, and as much as they need help to understand the hard truths in life, they also need what we all need – protection and love.

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

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

Sisters, do you realize the breadth and scope of your influence when you speak those things that come to your heart and mind as directed by the Spirit?

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

There’s many a man has more hair than wit.

There is nothing so stable as change.

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

My wife is already in Heaven.

Children make your life important.

The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

The stroke of death is as a lover’s pinch, which hurts and is desired.

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.

You can’t forgive without loving. And I don’t mean sentimentality. I don’t mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, ‚I forgive. I’m finished with it.‘

My mother was and will always remain my greatest hero.

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

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

As apostles and prophets, we are concerned not only for our children and grandchildren but for yours as well – and for each of God’s children.

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.

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

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.