For me, one of the toughest things about Valentine’s Day is that it gets geared up as the day to profess your love. See, T-E-S-T – that’s a bad word that doesn’t go with L-O-V-E.

For me, it’s about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It’s where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that’s very important to me.

Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That’s not a guess, it’s a guarantee. With pride, it’s not a matter of ‚if‘ we will fall, but ‚when.‘ There are no exceptions.

I don’t think that much about my relationship with my mother and what it did to me. I sometimes feel terrible regret about her, what her life must have been like. Often, when I’m enjoying something, I think of how meager her rewards were and how much courage, in a way, she needed to go on living.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, ‚I love you.‘

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

When it comes to everybody else’s thing and their lane and their timing, I’m never doing anything intentional to, like, come after somebody. That will always be my biggest mistake or anybody’s biggest mistake if that’s their intention.

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn’t do to upset one’s own vanity.

I’m definitely gaining new fans, and that’s the key of any success… gain more love.

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.

I’m typically single. I’m the girl who – I call it girl-next-door-itis – the hot guy is friends with and gets all his relationship advice from but never considers dating.

These are all personal crises, I’m sure, that I manifest in a song format and project into physical situations. You make little stories up about how you feel. It’s as simple as that.

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that’s not easy.

There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‚That person I see is a savage monster;‘ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.

We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.

I’m not a real movie star. I’ve still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace marked on the heart of the element by the psychical convergence of the universe upon itself.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me.

I don’t think there’s an option for me to fall in love slowly or at medium speed. I either do, or I don’t.

In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love.

How do you know what it’s like to be stupid if you’ve never been smart?

The average Hollywood film star’s ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

If every man loves his mother, he’s going to treat the ladies right, with love and respect.

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

You can’t trust very many people.

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

To be social is to be forgiving.

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.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

I always entertain the notion that I’m wrong, or that I’ll have to revise my opinion. Most of the time that feels good; sometimes it really hurts and is embarrassing.

I have noticed… that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

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

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Keeping score is for games, not friendships.

A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: ‚Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?‘ We must always consider the person.

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

Few are drawn to the person whom others avoid and neglect; people gather around those who have already attracted interest.

Sometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself.

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what’s in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

I’ve seen my friends take someone back after they’ve cheated because they fit perfectly.

I love singing. I love it, and it doesn’t feel like a chore. It’s an expression.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

My audience went, ‚Wait, why is she singing jazz? What’s going on?‘ And then they went, ‚Oh, because she can. Because she loves it.‘ And jazz, a music invented by the African-American community, is the greatest art form, I believe, to have ever come out of this country.

I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair.

My mother taught children to love to dance.

You are Mrs. Reagan because Mr. Reagan loves you with all his heart.

I’ve learned a lot since I was a new mother. My approach to struggle and shame now is to talk to yourself like you’d talk to someone you love and reach out to tell your story.

My husband says I look like a Q-tip.

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.