Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

I still believe that all you need is love.

Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go looking for it, and I think it can often be poisonous.

I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, "Please— a little less love, and a little more common decency.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

We are all born for love...It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.

Faced with today's problems and disappointments, many people will try to escape from their responsibility. Escape in selfishness, escape in sexual pleasure, escape in drugs, escape in violence, escape in indifference and cynical attitudes. I propose to you the option of love, which is the opposite of escape. Said during his first visit to the US in 1979.

The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self - two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.