No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. We must speculate no more on our duty, but simply do it. When we have done it, however blindly, perhaps Heaven will show us why.
A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.
Whoever knows it also knows that in love there is no More and no Less; but that he who loves can only love with the whole heart, and with the whole soul; with all his strength and with all his will.
Would not the child's heart break in despair when the first cold storm of the world sweeps over it, if the warm sunlight of love from the eyes of mother and father did not shine upon him like the soft reflection of divine light and love?
The spring of love becomes hidden and soon filled up.
I've had many happy love affairs.
My goal is to show everyone that they, too, can do what they love to do.
It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion.
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
There has always been a feeling with people that they love my singing but not always the choice of material.
When I started to work with UNICEF, it was a new way of giving some love and care to the world.
With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.
And I think because of the passion of every English player and every English supporter, and every English journalist for the game, most of the game is played with passion, love for football and instinct, but in football you also have to think.
We've turned down multi million dollar films, simply because we liked the film better. We have the luxury to do so - we have projects that make the money, and others that we do for love.