"Every house where love abidesAnd friendship is..." - Quote by Henry Van Dyke

“Love is not about getting - but giving.”

“The best rose-bush, after all, is not that which has the fewest thorns, but that which bears the finest roses.”

“What do I owe my father? Everything!”

“My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here.”

“We set out to save the Shire, Sam and it has been saved - but not for me.”

“If there is to be peace in the home, There must be peace in the heart.”

“What we need to know about loving is no great mystery. We all know what constitutes loving behavior; we need but act upon it, not continually question it. Over-analysis often confuses the issue and in the end brings us no closer to insight. We sometimes become too busy classifying, separating, and examining, to remember that love is easy. It's we who make it complicated.”

“When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.”

“There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps.”