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

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

The mainstream is always under attack.

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

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

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.

To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

I don’t have to ‚freedom-kiss‘ my wife when what I really want to do is French-kiss her.

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

I’ve always loved the fans in Scotland and have a little Scottish blood of my own.

If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream.

The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we’ll fail, and sometimes we’ll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you’ll find support.

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

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

I’m a human being and I fall in love and sometimes I don’t have control of every situation.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

I think Kenny Chesney or Garth Brooks would be the coolest duet partners. I look up to them so much for their work ethics.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he’s no longer God… They’ll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.

And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that’s fine with me!

They are resilient children, but they are children, and as much as they need help to understand the hard truths in life, they also need what we all need – protection and love.

Treat your children like the blessings they are or don’t have them at all.

No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person’s enemies say about him.

Don’t judge other people. For example, if you want God’s anointing to be on you for parenting, you need to be careful not to criticize other parents.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

It’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well.

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work.

How much better it would be if all could be more aware of God’s providence and love and express that gratitude to Him.

You bring children into the world. You love them with heart and soul.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

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

In the real world, children love me.

They do not love that do not show their love.

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.

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

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

We love things we love what they are.

We’re all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

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

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

I knew I was blessed with a gift of having both parents.

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

When you have kids, you see life through different eyes. You feel love more deeply and are maybe a little more compassionate. It’s inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting.

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we’ve struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We’ve made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

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.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

What I’ve discovered is that in art, as in music, there’s a lot of truth-and then there’s a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It’s the moment that the audience falls in love.