Love is not an emotion or an instinct - it is an art.

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.

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

Hate is only a form love that hasn't found a way to express itself logically.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.

Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.

I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.

I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.

For true love is inexhaustible the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.

We are not raising children with the love that we need to.

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Love is the ultimate theme, but it is not just for women.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.