Be brave, young lovers, and follow your star.

— Oscar Hammerstein II

Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you? Am I making believe I see in you, a woman too perfect to be really true? Do I want you because you're wonderful, or are you wonderful because I want you? Are you the sweet invention of a lover's dream, or are you really as beautiful as you seem?

— Oscar Hammerstein II

If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught.

— Oscar Hammerstein II

Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.

— Oscar Hammerstein II

Sentiment has never been unpopular except with a few sick persons who are made sicker by the sight of a child, a glimpse of a wedding, or the thought of a happy home.

— Oscar Hammerstein II

The last time I saw Paris. Her heart was warm and gay.

— Oscar Hammerstein II

There is a very real relationship both quantitatively and qualitatively between what you contribute and what you get out of this world.

— Oscar Hammerstein II

There is a very real relationship, both quantitatively and qualitatively, between what you contribute and what you get out of this world.

— Oscar Hammerstein II

You have to have a dream. If you don't have a dream, how you going to make a dream come true?

— Oscar Hammerstein II