Love

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

I wish that the one that I love would cause me to lose everything and everyone, so that I might find true freedom.

My peace is in solitude, My Beloved is alone with me.

O God! If I worship You for fear of Hell, burn me in Hell, and if I worship You in hope of Paradise, exclude me from Paradise. But if I worship You for Your Own sake, grudge me not Your everlasting Beauty.

The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.

The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him.

My heart can take on any form: A meadow for gazelles, a cloister for monks, For the idols, sacred ground, Ka'bah for the circling pilgrim, The tables of the Torah, the scrolls of the Quran. My creed is Love; Wherever its caravan turns along the way, That is my belief, My faith.

I paint flowers so they will not die.

A generous heart should scorn a pleasure which gives others pain.

In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.

The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.

The only love that matters is the love that pushes you beyond self and language into some other sea of possibility.

I've got a photo album that my wife put together for me that extensively covers my entire swimming career.

Everybody needs love. Everybody needs that support from someone.

It's all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self-love deficit.

Basketball is my wife.

The most important thing in the world is family and love.