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

We’re all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.

Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That’s definitely my first response. I think change is more likely to happen if both partners have common language and a shared lens to see problems.

All men hate the nagging.

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I’m writing about New York.

Oh, my mama was awesome. Very strict, overreligious, loved the Lord, loved rules. But she had to be that way because of where we were growing up, the neighborhood I was from.

I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn’t care what kind of movies I made.

God’s love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.

There’s nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It’s a thing no married man knows anything about.

To a guy like me, a laugh is full of information.

He didn’t come out of my belly, but my God, I’ve made his bones, because I’ve attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I’m so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

I think I have had so much blessing – I’ve had my brother, who was brilliant – I think my family came closest to making a genius when they made my brother – Bailey was just all of that. He loved me.

There’s very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction – that is, the hatred and the anger – they come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they’re rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.

Trying to meet new women, it’s always a little more difficult as opposed to calling somebody I knew that’s single and trying to rebuild that connection.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since, when death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God.

My friends, there are no friends.

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

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

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

If you’re talking to a man who wouldn’t fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you’re talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

It’s important to love in hip hop.

It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.

Anywhere I go, there is always an incredible crowd that follows me. In Rome, as I land at the airport, even the men kiss me. I love Rome.

My body is quite tiny, but a lot of the emotions I feel are pretty explosive. They have to come out.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

Like associates with like.

Absolutely not. I have no problem with commitment. In fact, I love having someone in my life.

I’ve missed out on a lot of things, going out with friends.

At one time, I was very angry. I even treated fashion like a kind of crusade: you were either with us or against us, that kind of feeling. Now I know we need ideas, not kicking down a door.

Love is the one wild card.

I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen.

You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood.

For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

That’s what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he’s wise.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

I’m the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren’t no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn’t know about them.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.

All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I’d worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: ‚Don’t hide these things from me. I’d rather you ask me these things straight out, and I’ll answer all your questions.‘

Friends accept you the way you are.

I’m doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

I’m the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that’s horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it.

I don’t have to ‚freedom-kiss‘ my wife when what I really want to do is French-kiss her.

You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they’re not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don’t care about money, and that’s not my problem.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.