In marriage a man becomes slack and selfish and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

To fall in love is easy even to remain in it is not difficult our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have so to speak pawned a part of their narcissism.

When you love a man he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand and his outline recedes vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world the atmosphere the blue sky and the blue water.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others but it also becomes richer and happier.

When the Senate ceases to engage nominees in meaningful discussion of legal issues the confirmation process takes on an air of vacuity and farce and the Senate becomes incapable of either properly evaluating nominees or appropriately educating the public.

Every non-political human grouping of whatever kind legal social religious economic or other becomes at last political if it creates an opposition deep enough to range men against one another as enemies.

History has shown us that on extraordinarily rare occasions it becomes necessary for the federal government to intervene on behalf of individuals whose 14th Amendment rights to legal due process and equal protection may be violated by a state.

I think there's so much negative influence on children in school settings. It becomes learning by rote to pass a test. It's not contextualized.

Anytime you ride against the best in the world it becomes a learning process.

All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.

Once you learn to quit it becomes a habit.

Once it gets to a point where it becomes a matter of life and death to occupy a position of leadership or not with an eye on future opportunities therein lies the danger.

The more that social democracy develops grows and becomes stronger the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies the leadership of their movement and the determination of its direction into their own hands.