When I look out at the people and they look at me and they're smiling, then I know that I'm loved. That is the time when I have no worries, no problems.
Etta James

This is an album of songs that I've always loved, tunes that I heard. For the first time in 53 years of recording, I really had control over an entire album, start to finish.
Etta James

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
Andre Malraux

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
Francis of Assisi

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
Harper Lee

You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

If you wished to be loved, love.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I loved the world of imagination.
R. A. Salvatore

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.
William Wordsworth

I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to read that didn't excite me and didn't even remotely connect to the realities of my life.
R. A. Salvatore

Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.
Gustave Flaubert

Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!
Robert Browning

I loved the feeling of freedom in running, the fresh air, the feeling that the only person I'm competing with is me.
Wilma Rudolph

Probably the toughest time in anyone's life is when you have to murder a loved one because they're the devil.
Emo Philips

So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee.
Robert Browning

When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.
Arthur Ashe

If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
Michel de Montaigne

If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
Michel de Montaigne

I loved Japan. I used to read a lot about it when I was a child. And I always wanted to go. And it was delightful. I absolutely loved it. What a smashing place.
Billy Connolly

I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left me. I lived a few weeks while you loved me.
Humphrey Bogart