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

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.

Hate the sin and love the sinner. Traditional saying - not first said by him.

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.

You can't be wise and in love at the same time.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go in business because we'd be cynical: "It's gonna go wrong." Or "She's going to hurt me." Or,"I've had a couple of bad love affairs, so therefore . . ." Well, that's nonsense. You're going to miss life. You've got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty interesting questions.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

The Master of Life's been good to me. He has given me strength to face past illnesses, and victory in the face of defeat. He has given me life and joy where others saw oblivion. He has given new purposes to live for. New services to render and old wounds to heal. Life and love go on. Let the music play.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

When I saw Terri in the crowd, I looked up and our eyes met, and my heart just went, "Bang, bang, bang, bang!" - just started thumpin'. It was love at first sight! I know this sounds like it's coming out of some Mills & Boon love novel, but it's true! Love at first sight!

I suppose the story of my life is a search for love, but more than that, I have been looking for a way to repair myself from the damages I suffered early on and to define my obligation, if I had any, to myself and my species.

My job is to help you fall in love. Speech at Brown University (1995)

Nuptial love maketh mankind, friendly love perfecteth it, but wonton love corrupteth and embaseth it.

For it is a true rule, that love is ever rewarded either with the reciproque, or with an inward and secret contempt.

For there was never proud man thought so absurdly well of himself, as the lover doth of the person loved.