Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

I think the perfection of love is that it’s not perfect.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

Love has no age, no limit; and no death.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.

To be your friend was all I ever wanted; to be your lover was all I ever dreamed.

My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.

You make me want to be a better man.

A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.

I know what love is, it is because of you.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone.

The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.