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.

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

I’ve never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I’ve only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.

Our love, our gratitude, our admiration for our men and women in uniform, our veterans and their families – all of that is bigger than any one party or any one election.

My wife and I are very affectionate.

I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

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

Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

There’s nothing better than having a baby. I’ve always loved children. I used to work summers at the YMCA and be in charge of, like, 30 preschool kids. I knew that when I had a child, I’d be overwhelmed, and it’s true… I can’t tell you how much my attitude has changed since we’ve got Frances. Holding my baby is the best drug in the world.

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

I’m such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one’s self.

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

I never promise anything. I don’t promise anything to my mum. I don’t promise anything to the supporters.

Any man who doesn’t love his mama can’t be no friend of mine.

Better a broken promise than none at all.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

To every soul that knows how to pray, to every soul that by faith comes to Jesus, the true mercy seat, divine sovereignty wears no dark and terrible aspect but is full of love.

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

Lovers often invest their first meetings with retrospective significance, as if to try to conjure the elements of the numinous out of the stubborn witness of the everyday.

One thing about me is I try to be honest.

I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.

There’s been a lot of talk about Jack White wanting to work with me, and I’ve always admired him, and of course, he lives in Nashville, too.

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

I don’t really know that much about love, it turns out.

When you walk into my classroom, I’m going to give it to you straight, just like in the real world, because that’s the only way to prepare you for the real world.

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It’s one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.

The reason children accept discipline from their parents is because they know their parents love them.

Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.

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.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

Love and desire are the spirit’s wings to great deeds.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

You can write a song about being in love with someone, but you don’t have to be in love with anyone.

A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

The truth is God created us to have relationship with us. He wants to love us and take care of us, and He wants us to love Him. That’s where our walk with Christ has to start.

I don’t like people going behind my back.

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.

I don’t want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He’s a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.