I don’t want enemies. I want friends, and I want them in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and loving whoever they want to.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

If people wonder, yes, Hillary Clinton is my friend. She has been a friend to me and Barack and Malia and Sasha, and Bill and Chelsea have been embracing and supportive from the very day my husband took the oath of office.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

I see Americans of every party, every background, every faith who believe that we are stronger together: black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American; young, old; gay, straight; men, women, folks with disabilities, all pledging allegiance under the same proud flag to this big, bold country that we love. That’s what I see. That’s the America I know!

If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.

I am a beneficiary of the American people’s generosity, and I hope we can have comprehensive immigration legislation that allows this country to continue to be enriched by those who were not born here.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted.

Friends… they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart.

I always like to create things that get attention. It used to be a problem when I wasn’t famous. Now, I can do whatever I want and people have to accept it.

If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

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

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

When your soul is resting, your emotions are okay, your mind is okay, and your will is at peace with God, not resisting what He’s doing.

Love can do much, but duty more.

I love to flirt, and I’ve never met a man I didn’t like.

Love is trembling happiness.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

I love the natural world – it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Standing in support of children is something we should all be able to get behind, regardless of party affiliation.

I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.

I am radically, insanely, nutty in love with Jesus!

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

I want people to follow their dreams, yes… but I’m not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers… I want to show them that there’s so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.

We never love a person, but only qualities.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.

I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other – and we still are.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

We didn’t crumble after 9/11. We didn’t falter after the Boston Marathon. But we’re America. Americans will never, ever stand down. We endure. We overcome. We own the finish line.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

Any man who doesn’t love his mama can’t be no friend of mine.

Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.

The facts tell us that no religious Faith releases – or ever has released at any moment in History – a higher degree of warmth, a more intense dynamism of unification than the Christianity of our own day – and the more Catholic it is, the truer my words.

I do have a lot of gays in my family now, but some will never come out.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can’t have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I’d rather not be in a cage. I’d rather be dead. And it’s real simple. And I think it’s not that uncommon.

Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.

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.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

I’m not one icon. I’m every icon. I’m an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.

If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?