Pastoral Resources

I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.

We were happy, and still are, to be able to do what we love.

Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire.

Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.

I love playing a dad. It's hard to find family dramas that are genuinely funny.

I don't love dolls. I love women. I love their bodies.

I love New York. But the energy is so intense.

The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks.

More and more the world is growing to love a lover, and one has only to read the newspapers to see how sympathetic are the times to any generous and adventurous display of the passions.

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

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

There is not love where there is no will.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Where there is love there is life.

Where love is, there God is also.

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

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

They spend an awful lot of money on I-don't-know-what in Hollywood movies; I certainly didn't get any of it. But they sure do love spending money.