Love is the only gold.

We needs must love the highest when we see it.

In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.

Greatly, have suffer'd greatly, both with those That loved me, and alone

Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

On me your voice falls as they say love should, Like an enormous yes.

What will survive of us is love.

A good meal can somewhat repair / The eatings of slight love

“Keep calm and chive on.” —As quoted in a 1974 interview with Lester Bangs

“Just because you are happy it does not mean that the day is perfect but that you have looked beyond its imperfections.”

“Alcohol make you drunk, man. It don’t make you meditate, it just make you drunk. Herb is more a consciousness.” —As recorded in filmed interview (1979) with Dylan Taite in Aotearoa, New Zealand

“Judge not, before you judge yourself.”

“In the abundance of water a fool is thirsty.”

“Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our mind.”

“One love, one heart, one destiny.”

“You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shelter when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes you close your windows. So that’s why I’m scared when you say you love me.”

“There will never be no love at all.”

“The winds that sometimes take something we love, are the same that bring us something we learn to love.” “Therefore we should not cry about something that was taken from us, but, yes, love what we have been given. Because what is really ours is never gone forever.”

“The trust is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”

“The biggest coward of a man is to awaken the love of a woman without the intention of loving her.”

“She may not be the most popular or prettiest but if you love her and she makes you smile… what else matters?”

“Overcome the devils with a thing called love.”

“One love, one heart, Let’s get together and feel alright.” —One Love (cowritten with Curtis Mayfield), from the album Exodus, originally recorded on The Wailing Wailers (1965).