For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don’t think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I’m with them.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

They are resilient children, but they are children, and as much as they need help to understand the hard truths in life, they also need what we all need – protection and love.

I want to thank my Eritrean fans for feeling connected to me and for supporting me. I feel extremely grateful.

I’m a human being and I fall in love and sometimes I don’t have control of every situation.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I’m not leading them to some false God or something like that.

If I’d married someone in show business, there’d be too much competition.

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

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

People react to fear, not love; they don’t teach that in Sunday School, but it’s true.

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.

The truth is God created us to have relationship with us. He wants to love us and take care of us, and He wants us to love Him. That’s where our walk with Christ has to start.

I want to marry Arline because I love her – which means I want to take care of her. That is all there is to it. I want to take care of her. I am anxious for the responsibilities and uncertainties of taking care of the girl I love.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

I wouldn’t say that anyone in fashion is on my side. I don’t think there’s anyone on my side.

Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to the universe.

Men and women do think differently, and frankly, we don’t understand each other. Not at all! But that’s what makes relationships so amazing.

I’ve had moments when I’ve thought about somebody, picked up the phone to call them and they are on the line already, and I think that maybe there’s some vibration, some connection.

I do have a lot of gays in my family now, but some will never come out.

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

The more I grow in popularity, the lonelier it gets. Because you don’t really know me. You just know this part of me. You fell in love with that. But it’s way more intricate than what meets the surface.

The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.

It’s annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren’t they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

No, we don’t own our children. Our parental privilege is to love them, to lead them, and to let them go.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

I was gutted to leave my boyfriend at home when I started my tour, but taking my pillow was like taking a little bit of him with me.

Men who think that a woman’s past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

Sometimes, you might meet somebody that you love that’s turning into a ‚they.‘ My key is invite them to Miami and take them to the ocean and let them jump off the boat in the ocean, on the sand bar, and cleanse off and pray and then go take a shower, and hopefully the ‚they‘ is out of you.

I love stuff from the Holy Land. It makes me feel blessed.

Speak low, if you speak love.

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

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

Whether a person is straight or gay, Republican, Democrat, good person, not a good person, they’re all welcome, because to me, church is a place you’re supposed to get healed and whole and loved.

I’ve learned that we all change constantly. It’s rare to find that person who is growing with you in the same way at the same time, who encourages you to grow.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it’s almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

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.