Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

I will meet my countrymen. I understand only one language: that they are my countrymen, they are my brothers. You may see with whatever colour you want; Modi will not go into that colour.

When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

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.

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‚understand‘ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

When I die, and people realize that I will not be resurrected in three days, they will forget me. That is the way it should be.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open.

I think one of the great things about the United States has been our ability to maintain a distinction between our military and domestic law enforcement.

I am who I am today because of my mother.

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

People like to hear the word ‚love.‘

Mostly, my flying has been solo, but the preparation for it wasn’t. Without my husband’s help and encouragement, I could not have attempted what I have. Ours has been a contented and reasonable partnership, he with his solo jobs and I with mine. But always with work and play together, conducted under a satisfactory system of dual control.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

There is too much government today. We’ve got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

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

No rapper in the world from Jay-Z to Tupac to Biggie has 100 percent love on everything they do.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

In hip-hop, there’s not a lot of love. There’s not a lot of love being spread. It’s always like ‚I’m stuntin‘ on you raps, or I’m better than you raps.‘ It’s not a lot of ‚Yo man, I idolize you raps.‘

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I’m trying to say is I’m trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

I don’t know what’s better gettin‘ laid or gettin‘ paid.

The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it’s just the thing that every man wants – to have a son and heir.

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

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.

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

When you face a ‚performance‘ that might provoke the ‚I’m scared‘ response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It’s more fun than ‚Dancing with the Stars!‘

There is no room for military people, including our veterans, to see themselves as victims, even if so many of our countrymen are prone to relish that role.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies – or else? The chain reaction of evil – hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars – must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

I could fall in love with a sumo wrestler if he told stories and made me laugh. Obviously, it would be easier if someone was African-American and lived next door and went to the same church. Because then I wouldn’t have to translate.

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Racial prejudice, anti-Semitism, or hatred of anyone with different beliefs has no place in the human mind or heart.

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.

I was fortunate and I was lucky that I had a couple of people in my life who cared about me. I had good, loving parents.

Like every parent, when you start your family, your life completely changes. And you completely live for someone else. I find that the most extraordinary thing. Your life is handed over to someone else. From that moment on, they come first in every choice you make. It’s the most wonderful thing.

I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can’t be locked up with anyone for too long.

The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken. More: You have ceded them power.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don’t mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That’s not power. That’s just corruption.

Love and desire are the spirit’s wings to great deeds.

People love conspiracy theories.

Every utopia – let’s just stick with the literary ones – faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don’t fit in?

The day will come – and it is not far off – when the legacy of Lincoln will finally be fulfilled at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, when a black man or woman will sit in the Oval Office. When that day comes, the most remarkable thing about it will be how naturally it occurs.

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists – to protect them and to promote their common welfare – all else is lost.

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

I think that people are tired. They’re tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

You see, at the end of the day, my most important title is still ‚mom-in-chief.‘ My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people’s happiness.

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.