A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

I’ll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics.

For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.

If I love you, I show you I love you every day. Little things, big things.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time’s carcass.

Now, as a nation, we don’t promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That’s an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf.

There are a whole bunch of roles where people say, ‚Oh, you’re playing yourself.‘ I guess it’s kind of a compliment. Or people say, ‚Oh, man, you just roll out of bed and do that.‘ The work is to make it look effortless. That’s the hard part.

Remember, it’s as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

Let us build bridges, my friends, build bridges to human dignity across that gulf that separates black America from white America.

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.

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.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

My husband says I look like a Q-tip.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

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.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

My wife thinks she’s better than me at puzzles. I haven’t given in on that one yet.

It’s always going to be a fight for anyone who isn’t an older white man. I want to fight for anyone who doesn’t have a fight.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Does anybody really think that they didn’t get what they had because they didn’t have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.

However weak we are, however poor, however little our faith, or however small our grace may be, our names are still written on His heart; nor shall we lose our share in Jesus‘ love.

In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that’s called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.

I want to support other women because of the opportunities I’ve had – and I’ve had a lot of opportunities. What I try as a female director is to do the best job I can and, in the meantime, bring attention to as many other female directors and writers as I can.

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.

A black person grows up in this country – and in many places – knowing that racism will be as familiar as salt to the tongue. Also, it can be as dangerous as too much salt. I think that you must struggle for betterment for yourself and for everyone.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

In my house I’m the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.

Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness and moderation is certain and durable.

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don’t know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

Why do Jewish men die before their wives? They want to.

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

When I was old enough to change my name, I changed it to Mr. T so that the first word out of someone’s mouth was ‚Mister,‘ a sign of respect.

As a sportsperson, the best thing is people recognising you and loving you for what you do. For me, glamour is 100 people in the hotel feeling happy to see you.

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

As apostles and prophets, we are concerned not only for our children and grandchildren but for yours as well – and for each of God’s children.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?

The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.

I kind of love Cole Miller.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don’t just want to possess it, it will find you.

If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

I just got to feel that whoever I marry has some real regard for me.