He that is jealous is not in love.

The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. They have no defense. The hardest ones to win for God are the self-righteous people.

But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible.

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 has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge.

You can never control who you fall in love with, even when you're in the most sad, confused time of your life. You don't fall in love with people because they're fun. It just happens.

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.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all - the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be, and much less about what we would do.

I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.