Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

I love to play. And fortunately, I don’t know a lot of musicians that suck. I know a bunch of really good ones, and they’re always up for playing.

It’s important to love in hip hop.

There is no love of life without despair of life.

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

I’ve… been accused of being involved with every man I’m ever seen with or worked with. Maybe I have, maybe I ain’t. I never tell if I have.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.

President Assad, I worked with. I know him reasonably well, met with him a few times, and he’s a liar.

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.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.

The one badge of Christian discipleship is not orthodoxy but love.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

Fear is real, but so is love.

In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age. Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.

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.

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?

For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.

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

In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged.

I definitely don’t think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.

To be loved is very demoralizing.

I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems.

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

I knew through the surgeries that he was on my side and that this wasn’t something where I was gonna feel less of a woman, because my husband wasn’t gonna let that happen.

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn’t care what kind of movies I made.

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.

I always keep my guard up with guys and I guess that can get in the way sometimes. I can make them go through hell.

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin‘ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

Our love, our gratitude, our admiration for our men and women in uniform, our veterans and their families – all of that is bigger than any one party or any one election.

If a man’s character is to be abused there’s nobody like a relative to do the business.

Of course, ‚I Will Always Love You‘ is the biggest song so far in my career. I’m famous for several, but that one has been recorded by more people and made me more money, I think, than all of them. But that song did come from a true and deep place in my heart.

You gotta understand: I believe a woman should praise the man, the king. If you holding it down for your woman, I feel like the woman should praise. And the man should praise the queen.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness.

It’s a funny thing that when a man hasn’t anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether there is any love for the church in the hearts of those who pay so much attention to the scandals.

I’m happiest with my family around me.

I don’t hate women – they just sometimes make me mad.

Love is easy, and I love writing. You can’t resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you’re in love.

I mean, families are weird.

The public doesn’t mind people living together without being married, providing they don’t overdo it.

Yes, it is one of my ultimate aims – it is the ultimate sense of football: to make the people happy, to let them live some emotions that you usually can’t get.

I rely on other people every day of my life.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.

They do not love that do not show their love.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.