Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

You can draw inspiration from anything. If you’re a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you’re casually talking to says something that makes you so mad – you can create an entire scenario around that.

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one ‚race‘ – the human race – and that we are all members of it.

Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: ‚Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?‘ We must always consider the person.

I try to speak plainly so that my constituents who don’t follow the nuances of government like I do, because they’re too busy earning a real living, can understand the issues before me. None of this stuff is brain surgery.

A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.

Just talk to me as a father – not what the Constitution says. What do you feel?

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

I am not one who – who flamboyantly believes in throwing a lot of words around.

What keeps me motivated is love and passion.

If I think too hard about a relationship, I’ll talk myself out of it.

I’m a human being and I fall in love and sometimes I don’t have control of every situation.

Don’t judge other people. For example, if you want God’s anointing to be on you for parenting, you need to be careful not to criticize other parents.

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

I’ll never make it, it will never happen, because they’re never going to hear me ‚cause they’re screaming all the time.

I have already demonstrated, by crucial tests, the practicability of signaling by my system from one to any other point of the globe, no matter how remote, and I shall soon convert the disbelievers.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.

If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me.

You see, at the end of the day, my most important title is still ‚mom-in-chief.‘ My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world.

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.

My heroes don’t have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don’t know how, so they talk to themselves.

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.

What I remember as a child is that other kids didn’t care about suffering. I always did.

A man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I’m afraid, have a tendency to hide our feelings.

When I get up and work out, I’m working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It’s just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water’s edge.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

Until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. It’s very clear.

So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

Speaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like, ‚Blah, blah, blah.‘ That’s when I get crazy.

To be loved is very demoralizing.

I took the vow of celibacy in 1906. I had not shared my thoughts with my wife until then, but only consulted her at the time of making the vow. She had no objection.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Right now, we don’t have a very good relation with creation.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Words may show a man’s wit but actions his meaning.

Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend’s folly.

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion’s roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

I can unload my opinion on anybody at anytime.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

Well I have a microphone and you don’t so you will listen to every damn word I have to say!

I hate the idea of genres.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

What you guys want, I’m for.

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

To me, it’s OK to have differences. But we don’t have to be mad about it. You know? And I think that’s where sometimes we get so passionate that we – you know, it turns into anger.

Words are but the signs of ideas.

I think the perfection of love is that it’s not perfect.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

It’s absolutely normal that different human beings want to go different ways.