Nicki Minaj, I’m at MTV. I’m going to be honest with you: I love you. I like you. I want you; I want you to be mine. Only reason I’m not telling you this face to face is because I understand that you’re busy.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world… Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies – or else? The chain reaction of evil – hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars – must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

Marriage is scary to me, man.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

Really showing love requires more than just words.

There are no rules when it comes to love.

Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God’s divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego’s insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you.

‚Love Story‘ is actually about a guy that I almost dated. But when I introduced him to my family and my friends, they all said they didn’t like him. All of them!

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Always be sincere, even if you don’t mean it.

I’m not a real movie star. I’ve still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

Lying is not only saying what isn’t true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.

There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving – by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

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 think what’s important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.

I haven’t had that one great love, which is good. I don’t want that to be in the past – I want it to be in the future.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don’t know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.

I love singing. I love it, and it doesn’t feel like a chore. It’s an expression.

President Assad, I worked with. I know him reasonably well, met with him a few times, and he’s a liar.

Love is easy, and I love writing. You can’t resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you’re in love.

When I went back to my old high school, all these kids looking at me like I’m the real big homie, the same way I look at Jay Z, Nas, or Dr. Dre. You would’ve thought Michael Jackson walked through that joint off the excitement that they had.

When I worked on a magazine, I learned that there are many, many writers writing that can’t write at all; and they keep on writing all the cliches and bromides and 1890 plots, and poems about Spring and poems about Love, and poems they think are modern because they are done in slang or staccato style, or written with all the ‚i’s‘ small.

Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.

A letter does not blush.

I looked the people of Louisiana in the eye and told them exactly what I thought in terms that normal people use.

A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.

No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.

Gays are some of the nicest, kindest, most loving people in the world.

When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challenge, and you try to express that challenge by climbing them.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.

No man wants to settle down. It happens. Eventually you’re going to bump into somebody that makes you go, ‚Hmm, I don’t mind seeing this person every day.‘

The important thing is to be in love with something.

I don’t call myself a Buddhist. I’m a free spirit. I believe I’m here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that’s my religion.

Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.

I love to flirt, and I’ve never met a man I didn’t like.

Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion – towards ourselves and towards all living beings.

Tina Turner is someone that I admire, because she made her strength feminine and sexy.

I love sleep; it’s my favorite.

Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

I’m pretty sure I don’t have any songs that are about how much I love someone. They’re all either about, like, ‚I hate you,‘ or ‚You make me hate me.‘

I like the fact that Melbourne always seems to support their chefs and promote them in ways I find really admirable.

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

I kind of love Cole Miller.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

No one ever doubts that I mean what I say. The problem is I sometimes say all that I mean.

In the real world, children love me.

How much better it would be if all could be more aware of God’s providence and love and express that gratitude to Him.

My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I’ve had. And now that I’m in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won’t be half as much anger as there was.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

The joy and love that I get from playing football are unbelievable. It is such a feeling that I want to give everything that I have got. I just enjoy it, I am living a life that I never even dreamt of.

We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

Men who think that a woman’s past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.