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.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they’re already asleep.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.

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.

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

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.

Intimates are predestined.

We can’t just choose to tell some facts and not others because we don’t want to upset people. We have to tell it like it is.

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

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’ve never had a dislike for men. I’ve been badly treated by some. But I’ve been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.

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

Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

I’ve got nothing to hide.

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

I wish I could make music about politics. I feel like it’s such an art and a talent that I admire tremendously, but when I step into the studio, I step out of the real world, and it’s therapeutic.

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.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

I admire people who destroy themselves.

I’ve told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn’t kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.

Like every parent, when you start your family, your life completely changes. And you completely live for someone else. I find that the most extraordinary thing. Your life is handed over to someone else. From that moment on, they come first in every choice you make. It’s the most wonderful thing.

I never thought I’d have children; I never thought I’d be in love, I never thought I’d meet the right person. Having come from a broken home – you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don’t look for them.

Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.

If I love you, I show you I love you every day. Little things, big things.

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

An honest man is always a child.

My fans don’t feel like I hold anything back from them. They know whatever I’m going through now, they’ll hear about it on a record someday. They’ll hear the real story. There’s a little bit of lag time. It’s not as instant as going on a gossip blog. But it’s much more accurate.

For my own part, I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen the representative of our country. He is a bird of bad moral character. He does not get his living honestly.

I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn’t care what kind of movies I made.

It is necessary to fall in love… if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

I love Manchester. Everyone knows that – I have said it many times. Manchester is in my heart.

I don’t pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

Sometimes, you might meet somebody that you love that’s turning into a ‚they.‘ My key is invite them to Miami and take them to the ocean and let them jump off the boat in the ocean, on the sand bar, and cleanse off and pray and then go take a shower, and hopefully the ‚they‘ is out of you.

Things in themselves have no life in them. A car can’t comfort or encourage you. A house means nothing if there’s no life and love inside.

A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That’s where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It’s having backbone.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

You are Mrs. Reagan because Mr. Reagan loves you with all his heart.

A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.

A ‚No‘ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‚Yes‘ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

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

The key to winning is choosing to do God’s will and loving others with all you’ve got.

We will always be a family. Always.

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

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.‘

There’s nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It’s a thing no married man knows anything about.

I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

In any court-like environment of power, you will inevitably find people who are drawn to those who are successful or powerful, not out of admiration, but out of secret envy.

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