For me to talk with Obama and the conversation I had with him, I was letting him know that me and my fans have a special connection, and it’s love, and I believe that love is the answer.

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!

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

My wife has about everything I can think of.

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it’s an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we’re facing.

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

I have not worked out my poems with a careful will, falling rather on haphazard and blind formulation of wordage, a more flowing concept, in a hope for a more new and lively path. I do personalize at times, but this only for the grace and elan of the dance.

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 love our daughters more than anything in the world – more than life itself. And while that may not be the first thing that some folks want to hear from an Ivy-league-educated lawyer, it is truly who I am. So for me, being Mom-in-Chief is, and always will be, job number one.

I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.

When I’m writing a record, I kind of don’t listen to much music. Just because I want to be inspired solely on the emotion; just based on how it feels.

I don’t think even ungodly people realize what a society would be like that had no godly influence at all.

In each soul, God loves and partly saves the whole world which that soul sums up in an incommunicable and particular way.

We live in a culture that relishes tearing others down. It’s ultimately more fulfilling, though, to help people reach their goals. Instead of feeling jealous, remember: If God did it for them, He can do it for you.

Small aim is a crime; have great aim.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

We’re in the last days, man – I truly, in my heart, believe that. It’s written. I could go on with biblical situations and things my grandma told me. But it’s about being at peace with myself and making good with the people around me.

I loved the fact that Obama is multi-racial. I thought that was terrific, as my wife is the same racial make-up.

Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish.

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.

My message is that God is a good God.

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

We represent a hustler. I think we represent inspiration. I think we represent, you know, staying down. I think we represent building yourself up from the bootstraps.

I just love Bowie. I think he’s the ultimate inventor.

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

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

The human race is governed by its imagination.

Faith activates God – Fear activates the Enemy.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn’t dare do themselves.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

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.

There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

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

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

Children make your life important.

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

I don’t like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: ‚This is my country.‘

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

I believe when it comes to love, there’s something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don’t think I have a pattern.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

I don’t really know that much about love, it turns out.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.