Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

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

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

There are a lot of groups that feel a little bit strange around me, because I am inclusive.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What’s the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.

I am a bit of a solitude person – a solitary personality. I like being on my own. I don’t have any major friendships or relationships with people.

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia – to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you – gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

I believe we live in a love-starved society. Everywhere you go there are probably people who haven’t had the right kind of love in their lives.

I knew through the surgeries that he was on my side and that this wasn’t something where I was gonna feel less of a woman, because my husband wasn’t gonna let that happen.

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

The wisest hustler can suddenly fall for the worst tramp and lose all of his money on her. The hustler is aware of his own weaknesses and openings to con. This awareness is his edge.

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

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

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

Friends accept you the way you are.

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing – hopefully.

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

I don’t want enemies. I want friends, and I want them in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and loving whoever they want to.

‚Young Indiana Jones’ was one of the happiest times I ever had, so I love television.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‚Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.‘

There’s only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I’ll get married again.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

When your mother asks, ‚Do you want a piece of advice?‘ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.

I love hugging people. I still hug everybody in my meet-and-greet lines.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

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.

When people get married young, you don’t really understand the true definition of marriage.

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.

We’ve fallen into a trap of ever-widening orbits of contact, and there is a total disregard for the present moment.

A true man hates no one.

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

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.

It’s important to love in hip hop.

If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.

One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what’s really happening to me, even if it’s a tough pill to swallow for people around me… I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that justifies this goodness and this love?

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

We can’t form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

My wife and I love each other very much.

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

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

Jesus is a divine guest inside of you all the time – one who loves, understands, sees and hears you. He wants to live in oneness with you… to be the centerpiece of everything you do.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

Part of our tradition as black women is that we are universalists. Black children, yellow children, red children, brown children, that is the black woman’s normal, day-to-day relationship. In my family alone, we are about four different colors.