Gays are some of the nicest, kindest, most loving people in the world.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn’t mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you’ve forgotten high school.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

I think everyone should be with who they love.

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?

When I worked on a magazine, I learned that there are many, many writers writing that can’t write at all; and they keep on writing all the cliches and bromides and 1890 plots, and poems about Spring and poems about Love, and poems they think are modern because they are done in slang or staccato style, or written with all the ‚i’s‘ small.

I’m trying to show everybody that I’m a girl, and I’m five foot four, and you can do anything you want, no matter your gender. It’s your world, too!

You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s.

I realized quickly what Mandela and Tambo meant to ordinary Africans. It was a place where they could come and find a sympathetic ear and a competent ally, a place where they would not be either turned away or cheated, a place where they might actually feel proud to be represented by men of their own skin color.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

Barack knows the American Dream because he’s lived it, and he wants everyone in this country to have that same opportunity, no matter who we are or where we’re from or what we look like or who we love.

For in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s futures. And we are all mortal.

It’s not that I’m afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

What’s really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.

There is always another way to say the same thing that doesn’t look at all like the way you said it before. I don’t know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.

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

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.

You never make fun of anybody with a club foot or a withered arm, but it’s open season on anybody who stutters.

Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since, when death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

We don’t need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.

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

Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.

I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.

I’m not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.

Honestly, I like everything, boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny.

If someone is right for you, you’ll know it.

He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.

A saint is tolerant and is attentive to the pleadings of other human beings, not only to spoken messages but to unspoken messages as well.

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.

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

No matter what, I always make it home for Christmas. I love to go to my Tennessee Mountain Home and invite all of my nieces and nephews and their spouses and kids and do what we all like to do – eat, laugh, trade presents and just enjoy each other… and sometimes I even dress up like Santa Claus!

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

People like to hear the word ‚love.‘

You definitely want your kids to understand their heritage, but I don’t want my kids to just focus on being black. They are people. I don’t want them to judge other people or to be judged. I want them to be good people, so good people will treat them accordingly. I preach that to my kids and everything else falls into place.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

To feel not only submitted but willing to be anything or nothing as the Lord wills it – this is, in truth, to sing a song to our Well Beloved.

My wife is already in Heaven.

We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o‘ the flatterer.

It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.

They might not need me; but they might. I’ll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.

If you want to make computers that really work, create a design team composed only of healthy, active women with lots else to do in their lives, and give them carte blanche.

There’s nothing better than having a baby. I’ve always loved children. I used to work summers at the YMCA and be in charge of, like, 30 preschool kids. I knew that when I had a child, I’d be overwhelmed, and it’s true… I can’t tell you how much my attitude has changed since we’ve got Frances. Holding my baby is the best drug in the world.

My sorrow, when she’s here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.

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.

If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.

Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.

Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.