Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.

Remember that bodily exercise, when it is well ordered, as I have said, is also prayer by means of which you can please God our Lord.

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure.

For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own image.

In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.

Cooking, decorating, diet/self-help and gardening books are guilty pleasures and useful time fillers.

My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

I claim for Canada this, that in future Canada shall be at liberty to act or not act, to interfere or not interfere, to do just as she pleases, and that she shall reserve to herself the right to judge whether or not there is cause for her to act.

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.

Letterman is very intimidating because he's so funny, so you have to be really prepared. Also, he's a little squeamish about certain things, so you have to always be on guard to please him.

I carry with me from my male upbringing a sense that femininity is forbidden. So when I appear on YouTube with forty butterflies glued to my body and glitter all over my face, I have a sense that I'm getting away with something I'm not supposed to. I'm being decadent. I'm enjoying a forbidden pleasure. And that's fun, and it's funny.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

I served as the chairman of the India-Israel Parliamentary Friendship Group for three years, during which I also had the pleasure of visiting Israel.

Stop using the word 'bromance.' Can we please kill that stupid term? We're just friends. It's called friendship!

If the chemistry is right between star and photographer and the geometry of the pictures pleases the star, often the two people end up with a long-term professional friendship during which they continue to work together and to produce highly personal images.

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

Very different from eros is philia, a serene love much more akin to friendship, with its reciprocal kindnesses. You love each other for the happy experiences and pleasures you share.