But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

America isn’t Congress. America isn’t Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger.

If you get down and quarell everyday, you’re saying prayers to the devil, I say.

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

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

A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether there is any love for the church in the hearts of those who pay so much attention to the scandals.

The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

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

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.

I know that a large part of my fan base is gay. They’ve shown me love from the start. I mean in this industry, everyone from my glam people to my dancers are gay. You can’t be homophobic in this line of work – I’m a pop star!

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England – you couldn’t have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.

My mother loved children – she would have given anything if I had been one.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

My mom and I have always been there for each other. We had some tough times, but she was always there for me.

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

Love is a serious mental disease.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

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

I’m not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We’re not ‚celebrities‘, whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or ugly, we are our words. They’re what people meet.

When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection, love is born.

Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you’re getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand.

Skype actually does get a fair bit of revenue.

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

Music helps me tell my story. That’s where I can really be heard. But there’s so much focus on the things that aren’t music.

I don’t need therapy. I’m not going to see a therapist; comedy acts as my therapy. I put my problems out there. I talk about them. I talk about everything before anybody has a chance.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.

Every time I come to Europe, I’m just as excited as I was my very first time, which was many, many years ago. I love that part of the world, and I especially love the fans.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

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.

To our brothers in Latin America and the world, we must convey that the Cuban people will overcome.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: ‚This is my country.‘

They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America – there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America – there’s the United States of America.

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

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.

Hate has no place in the house of God.

Confidence, as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I loved cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that – is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

I dote on his very absence.

Words are but the signs of ideas.

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

A president can ask for reconciliation in the racial conflict that divides Americans. But reconciliation comes only from the hearts of people.

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

How do I know about a man’s needs for a sex symbol? I’m a girl.

I think any man who lets a woman pick what he should wear… I mean, you gotta draw the line somewhere as a man. I see these guys, ‚My wife told me to wear this!‘ And I just shake my head.

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Every natural object is a conductor of divinity and only by coming into contact with them… may we be filled with the Holy Ghost.