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.

A lot of people can’t stand touring but to me it’s like breathing. I do it because I’m driven to do it.

Let’s be honest. Canada wasn’t ever cool.

Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.

Christmas is the perfect time to celebrate the love of God and family and to create memories that will last forever. Jesus is God’s perfect, indescribable gift. The amazing thing is that not only are we able to receive this gift, but we are able to share it with others on Christmas and every other day of the year.

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

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

Art is man’s expression of his joy in labor.

Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

When you walk into my classroom, I’m going to give it to you straight, just like in the real world, because that’s the only way to prepare you for the real 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.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

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

Jesus lived a life that was full of joy and contradictions and fights, you know? If they were to paint a picture of Jesus without contradictions, the gospels would be fake, but the contradictions are a sign of authenticity.

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.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

After getting out of the service and going into baseball I never wanted to do anything else.

I really love the culture of hip-hop.

The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.

I don’t believe in doing things to manufacture my body to appeal to what I think people might like.

Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win.

No rapper in the world from Jay-Z to Tupac to Biggie has 100 percent love on everything they do.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

I don’t do things for the response or for the controversy. I just live my life.

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

We have communion with Christ in His thoughts, views, and purposes; for His thoughts are our thoughts according to our capacity and sanctity. Believers take the same view of matters as Jesus does; that which pleases Him pleases them, and that which grieves His grieves them also.

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don’t trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.

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.

One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.

I never wanted to write the sort of song that said, ‚Look at how abnormal and crazy and out there I am, man!‘

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

I love being on stage, I love being able to tell a story, I love the fact that the audience listens and laughs at it. It makes me happy, and it’s what I live for.

Without Cambodia, I may never have become a mother. Part of my heart is and will always be in this country. And part of this country is always with me: Maddox.

Starting your own business isn’t just a job – it’s a way of life.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.

Aside from singing, I’m also a dancer. I’ve been dancing since I was 8.

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

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.

Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.

The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.

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.

Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I’m fully behind.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

My mother taught children to love to dance.

I love hugging people. I still hug everybody in my meet-and-greet lines.

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

I just have a relationship with my imagination. It’s like my friend, almost.

If you change and adapt your persona, you are seen as inauthentic; if you stay the angry young man, you fade from attention or seem tiresome.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.