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 broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

Of all nature’s gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

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.

We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can’t cope with is therefore your own problem.

Tonight – to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans – I ask for your support.

We are a nation of communities… a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

What’s done can’t be undone.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

All of us are so mixed. My great-grandfather was white.

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.

Love is easy, and I love writing. You can’t resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you’re in love.

The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you – black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

There are no rules when it comes to love.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Many people, especially young people, would like to be more independent and on their own. But it is very difficult and they suffer from feelings of isolation. I think that is one reason why young readers support my work.

Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone… Bad food is fake food… food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people’s ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives.

Hate has no place in the house of God.

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.

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

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

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.

I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to support me in the task to which I have now been dedicated with such solemnity.

Good psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one method, one idea, or one person.

In cricket, my superhero is Sachin Tendulkar. He has always been my hero and will continue to remain so. Apart from him and outside cricket, my mother has remained my inspiration. Whatever difficult time I had faced, she was always there for me. She has given me all the strength. She maintained her composure and supported me in tough times.

I’m just changing the game because I know what the fans want and the people want ‚cause I’m a fan of hip-hop.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one ‚race‘ – the human race – and that we are all members of it.

There are as many opinions as there are experts.

In Los Angeles, everyone is a star.

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 don’t have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I’m happier now than before I developed the condition.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.

Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it’s mad that people like me are listened to – you know, rap stars and movie stars.

I just think overall there’s not as many female ministers than there are male ministers.

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray.

Be happy with being you. Love your flaws. Own your quirks. And know that you are just as perfect as anyone else, exactly as you are.

I believe the scripture says that being gay is a sin.

I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

We do not judge the people we love.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.

The answer I found is you stay away from the people who make fun of you, and you join these ad hoc groups who understand your craziness.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

I’m not focused on the gay and lesbian movement.

Marriage is the death of hope.

I don’t keep people around me that aren’t family. You don’t get to stay. Unless you’re eating at the table with us, you’re not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.