We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

The U.S.S. George H. W. Bush is a great thing in my life. It’s amazing. A great honor.

Most of our lives aren’t that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone… Bad food is fake food… food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people’s ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives.

I don’t control my writing – it controls me.

Passions are the gales of life.

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background, and I think the greatest thing to do is to pray that God will give you love for them, and I do.

No rapper in the world from Jay-Z to Tupac to Biggie has 100 percent love on everything they do.

Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.

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

I believe life is an intelligent thing: that things aren’t random.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all.

We give speeches and pin ribbons onto uniforms, etch names into walls. And all that is fine, but too often, all those tributes, all those words aren’t always backed up by action. And that felt like such a stark contrast to me, because, as we all know, our military is all about action.

Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow.

Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.

I take inspiration from everyone and everything. I’m inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers.

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

I love Brad in every state.

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

I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you’ve got to let it grow.

The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

I’ve been blessed with talents to play this game and been put on a stage to impact a lot of people. I don’t want to take that for granted.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

Children make your life important.

It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available – more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don’t have to run into the future in order to get more.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

I remember flying in, driving down 101 in a cab, and passing by all these tech companies like Yahoo! I remember thinking, ‚Maybe someday we’ll build a company. This probably isn’t it, but one day we will.‘

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

It’s so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that’s what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you’ll be amazed at the results.

You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.