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.

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don’t know if it’s possible forever and ever.

During my first years in the Sierra, I was ever calling on everybody within reach to admire them, but I found no one half warm enough until Emerson came. I had read his essays, and felt sure that of all men he would best interpret the sayings of these noble mountains and trees. Nor was my faith weakened when I met him in Yosemite.

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

I always wanted to be loved.

Ever since I first came here in 1963 to fight Henry Cooper, I have loved the people of England.

She would have thrived as a grandmother. I know how much she would have contributed to their lives, and I am sad they will miss out on that.

I always say I wanna work with Alicia Keys. I’m in awe of her.

Love always ends differently and it always begins differently – especially with me.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don’t have brains enough to be honest.

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

Let’s be honest – tracking down, rounding up, and deporting millions of people isn’t realistic. Anyone who suggests otherwise isn’t being straight with you. It’s also not who we are as Americans.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

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

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

You want to do good things, and once you’ve done a couple of good things in a row, you think ‚Well gee, let’s not mess this up.‘ But I am lucky at this point that I have something I really love to do, and it completely holds my attention. I never feel frustrated by it.

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.

Hate has no place in the house of God.

I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.

There was a time Michael Jackson couldn’t get his video on MTV because he was considered to be ‚urban.‘ The Michael Jackson. So I literally have to be the Michael Jackson of apparel in order to break down the doors for everyone who will come after I’m gone, after I’m dead.

Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston, I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song, and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, ‚Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.‘

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

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 we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.

There’s only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I’ll get married again.

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

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.

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

Anywhere I go, there is always an incredible crowd that follows me. In Rome, as I land at the airport, even the men kiss me. I love Rome.

You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

I don’t mind telling a dark side.

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

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

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.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

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.

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook. I earned everything I’ve got.

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

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.

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

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

I’ve been careful in love. I’ve been careless in love. And I’ve had adventures I wouldn’t trade for anything.

You don’t tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.

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.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

Hatred is blind, as well as love.