Gays are some of the nicest, kindest, most loving people in the world.

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

You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred.

For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you – black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.

My wife is already in Heaven.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

For in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s futures. And we are all mortal.

I’ve never doubted that apartheid – because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil – was going to bite the dust eventually.

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

I don’t like to beat people down. They need to be lifted up.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Smiles are the language of love.

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

We hand folks over to God’s mercy, and show none ourselves.

It is right to give every man his due.

I don’t even call them fans. I don’t like that. They’re literally just a part of my life; they’re a part of my family. I don’t think of them as on a lower level than me. I don’t think I’m anything but equal to all of them. So yeah, they’re basically all of my siblings.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

I get that racism exists, but it’s not a catalyst for my content. I don’t need to talk about race to have material. My style of comedy is more self-deprecating. I think that makes me more relatable. When you deal with ‚topics‘ – race, white versus black – you’re not separating from the pack. You’re doing what everybody else is doing.

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

My gold, my money couldn’t stop cancer from appearing on my body. If they can’t save me, then I don’t need them.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.

Of all nature’s gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we’ve struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We’ve made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

It’s a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other beings just because they are different. They think they’re different. It’s very limiting.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world… Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

I’m definitely gaining new fans, and that’s the key of any success… gain more love.

The entering class I joined in 1956 included just nine women, up from five in the then second-year class, and only one African American. All professors, in those now-ancient days, were of the same race and sex.

Whether our forebears were strangers who crossed the Atlantic or the Pacific or the Rio Grande, we are here only because this country welcomed them in and taught them that to be an American is about something more than what we look like, or what our last names are, or how we worship.

It’s always going to be a fight for anyone who isn’t an older white man. I want to fight for anyone who doesn’t have a fight.

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

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

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

Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don’t know why this one is different, but it is. You don’t know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can’t stop thinking about it.

Women are the engine driving the growth in California’s economy. Women make California’s economy unique.

Peace begins with a smile.

What I’ve discovered is that in art, as in music, there’s a lot of truth-and then there’s a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It’s the moment that the audience falls in love.

I want a president with a record of public service, someone whose life’s work shows our children that we don’t chase fame and fortune for ourselves: we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.

Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what’s underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don’t think it ever will be.

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

Always say ‚yes‘ to the present moment… Surrender to what is. Say ‚yes‘ to life – and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.

Love… it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

If your culture doesn’t like geeks, you are in real trouble.

I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don’t know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

However weak we are, however poor, however little our faith, or however small our grace may be, our names are still written on His heart; nor shall we lose our share in Jesus‘ love.

The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

We do not judge the people we love.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

I’ve been careful in love. I’ve been careless in love. And I’ve had adventures I wouldn’t trade for anything.

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.