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.

The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but the Pope has the duty, in Christ’s name, to remind the rich to help the poor, to respect them, to promote them.

Who, being loved, is poor?

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

I suppose my best attribute, if you want to call it that, is sincerity. I can sell sincerity because that’s the way I am.

You don’t want to live your life and then meet someone. You want to share your life with someone. That’s what I’m missing right now.

It’s fun to be hopelessly in love. It’s dangerous, but it’s fun.

In God’s family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.

We love things we love what they are.

If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you’re solid, and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.

I’m definitely gaining new fans, and that’s the key of any success… gain more love.

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

It is better to be deceived by one’s friends than to deceive them.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

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

I have so many playlists full of Rihanna, Nicki Minaj, Lil Wayne, Chris Brown.

For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

A true man hates no one.

Mad or glad, Mr. Reagan is head over heels in love with Mrs. Reagan and can’t even imagine a world without her – He loves her.

I love America, it’s a much more permissive place.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

I could fall in love with a sumo wrestler if he told stories and made me laugh. Obviously, it would be easier if someone was African-American and lived next door and went to the same church. Because then I wouldn’t have to translate.

I thank God I’m myself and for the life I’m given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

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

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

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.

The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes – or just by staring into space.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

There’s just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.

Love is the most powerful thing in the world, and you know, what love brings is joy.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.

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

I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

When people get married young, you don’t really understand the true definition of marriage.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

I have all the admiration in the world for somebody like Bono, who really puts himself on the line and tries actively to do something about our world situation.

Life loves the liver of it.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.

These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I’d be a damn‘ fool if they weren’t.

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

I love stuff from the Holy Land. It makes me feel blessed.

Don’t believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

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.

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

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.