Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.

We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother – but… when she became our child, the affection came.

I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

It would have been difficult to have an ugly daughter.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

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

There’s a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more.

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.

I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all.

My family wasn’t rich, so when it comes to money, I tend to think, ‚Err on the side of caution.‘

One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child’s name and how old he or she is.

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

My whole life and my whole career, even through my music, I tell people: let’s unify; let’s show more love.

Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

To every soul that knows how to pray, to every soul that by faith comes to Jesus, the true mercy seat, divine sovereignty wears no dark and terrible aspect but is full of love.

I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

The giving of love is an education in itself.

If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me.

Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God’s divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego’s insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you.

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

I was baptized by my father when I was 4 years old.

When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one – it’s the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky – in the big cities, too, for that matter.

It’s important to love in hip hop.

I absolutely adore Christmas.

I love sleep; it’s my favorite.

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.

A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.

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

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.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

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.

I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I’ve got a lot of that in me as well.

I grew up upper-class. Private school. My dad had a Jaguar. We’re African-American, and we work together as a family, so people assume we’re like the Jacksons. But I didn’t have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.

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.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.

The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.

I know I’m talented, but I wasn’t put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but it’s not where it begins and ends.

Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.

My wife is already in Heaven.

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.

There’s only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I’ll get married again.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural.

I’m focusing on me. I’m focusing on my family’s security, my family’s financial security, so that’s all I can do.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don’t just want to possess it, it will find you.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.

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

I’ve had no contact with my daughter for years. That’s her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don’t want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.