There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.

When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.

Don't let fear or insecurity stop you from trying new things. Believe in yourself. Do what you love. And most importantly, be kind to others, even if you don't like them.

Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.

The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Forgiveness is the final form of love.

I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls, the right to breathe and the right to vote, the freedom to choose their friends, enjoy the sunshine, and ride on the railroads, uncursed by color; thinking, dreaming, working as they will in a kingdom of beauty and love.

As Faulkner says, all of us have the capacity in us for great good and for great evil, for love but also for hate. I wanted to write those kinds of complex character in a fantasy, and not just have all the good people get together to fight the bad guy.