No three words have greater force than "I want you, " greater strength than "I need you, " greater might than "I miss you, " and greater power than "I love you.

Love does these three things effectively: multiplies joy, divides trouble, subtracts grief, and adds peace.

The world needs more love and Twitter just figured out a way to send 'hearts all over the world'.

Love has no spear but conquers hearts.

My brothers and sisters, true love is a reflection of the Savior's love. In December of each year we call it the Christmas spirit. You can hear it. You can see it. You can feel it.

Science prospers exactly in proportion as it is religious. The great deeds of philosophers have been less the fruit of their intellect than of the direction of that intellect by an eminently religious tone of mind. Truth has yielded herself rather to their patience, their love, their single-heartedness and their self-denial, than to their logical acumen.

Nothing is more suspicious, in a man who seems holy, than an impatient desire to reform other men.

Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

The best rule of friendship is to keep your heart a little softer than your head.

Blessed influence of one truly loving soul on another!

How well your readers connect with and care about this character determines the success of a story. In other words, if they've emotionally gone on the journey with the character, suffered with and experienced the joys and triumphs of the character, as well as learned the lessons and truths, only then have you, the author, done your job.