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.

Speak low, if you speak love.

I think ‚The Color Purple‘ is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe.

Dear friends, we may well sing to our Beloved when it is near the time of our departure. It draws near, and as it approaches, we must not dread it, but rather thank God for it.

Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

I love life because what more is there?

Our Heavenly Father loves you. He has created you to be successful and to have joy.

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

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

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

My husband calls me ‚catfish.‘ He says I’m all mouth and no brains.

Love is an interesting thing.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.

Instruments sound interesting, not because of their sound, but because of the relationship a player has with them. Instrumentalists build a rapport with their instruments, which is what you like and respond to.

God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we’re small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.

To be able to throw one’s self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman’s smile – that is happiness.

Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

Where thou art, that is home.

I always wanted a great love affair: something that feels big and full, really honest, and enough. No moment should feel slight, false, or a little off. For me, it had to be everything.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

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.

Intimates are predestined.

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

I’ve got a crush on my backing singer.

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors. I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, ‚One of these days I’m going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.‘ That’s all I’ve ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.

I read so much stuff that black women say, especially about my relationship. ‚Oh, he left his black wife to go be with some exotic chick.‘ First of all, my girl is black: she’s Jamaican.

There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.

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

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

I love my friends and my past, and it’s made me who I am.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I’ve never been in love before – I don’t really know? I think I have. I guess it’s subjective in that way.

Fear is real, but so is love.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

The revealed Word awakened me, but it was the preached Word that saved me, and I must ever attach peculiar value to the hearing of the truth, for by it I received the joy and peace in which my soul delights.

When you have kids, you see life through different eyes. You feel love more deeply and are maybe a little more compassionate. It’s inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

It’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well.

My three children have brought me great joy.

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

To be loved is very demoralizing.

I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

You want to do good things, and once you’ve done a couple of good things in a row, you think ‚Well gee, let’s not mess this up.‘ But I am lucky at this point that I have something I really love to do, and it completely holds my attention. I never feel frustrated by it.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

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