Ann Landers

Opportunities are usually disguised by hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.

It’s amazing what passes for love these days – crows parading as blue jays.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

Men make love more intensely at 20, but make love better, however, at 30.

You’re ripped at every edge but you’re a masterpiece.

I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

When you fall in love, you wanna share it with people but you know there are some things that you need to keep to yourself, ’cause privacy makes things last longer, I feel.

Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.

If you can’t hurt with me, don’t flirt with me.

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.

I don’t wanna wake it up, the devil in me.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

All we do is drive. All we do is think about the feelings that we hide.

Barack and I were both raised by families who didn’t have much in the way of money or material possessions but who had given us something far more valuable – their unconditional love, their unflinching sacrifice, and the chance to go places they had never imagined for themselves.