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.

Accept that all of us can be hurt that all of us can and surely will at times fail. Other vulnerabilities like being embarrassed or risking love can be terrifying too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst take the risk.

I love America more than any other country in this world and exactly for this reason I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment or an enlarged egotism.

Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart or its flame burns low.

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

If you love someone you say it right then out loud. Otherwise the moment just passes you by.

Love comes when manipulation stops when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

For one human being to love another that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks the ultimate the last test and proof the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Those whom we can love we can hate to others we are indifferent.

Love matches so called have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

A heart is not judged by how much you love but by how much you are loved by others.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

A father may turn his back on his child brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies husbands may desert their wives wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.

Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him but you know he will strangle you with his panic.

Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired it need not be deserved.

Love is the expression of one's values the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and in a sense tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother and to become fully independent.

Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

If we lose love and self respect for each other this is how we finally die.