I could fall in love with a sumo wrestler if he told stories and made me laugh. Obviously, it would be easier if someone was African-American and lived next door and went to the same church. Because then I wouldn’t have to translate.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

In hip-hop, there’s not a lot of love. There’s not a lot of love being spread. It’s always like ‚I’m stuntin‘ on you raps, or I’m better than you raps.‘ It’s not a lot of ‚Yo man, I idolize you raps.‘

I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background, and I think the greatest thing to do is to pray that God will give you love for them, and I do.

Barack knows the American Dream because he’s lived it, and he wants everyone in this country to have that same opportunity, no matter who we are or where we’re from or what we look like or who we love.

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

I love the sea.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

The important thing is to be in love with something.

This is love: the flowering of love is meditation.

My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.

The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it’s so much fun.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

I’m tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro – that’s the Scotch-Irish part.

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

I’ve been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she’ll kill me.

At the end of the day, we started playing football because we loved it.

Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion – towards ourselves and towards all living beings.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

I was very worried about my mother, growing up – a lot. I do not want my children to be worried about me.

I love singing. I love it, and it doesn’t feel like a chore. It’s an expression.

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.

Anywhere I go, there is always an incredible crowd that follows me. In Rome, as I land at the airport, even the men kiss me. I love Rome.

Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.

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

My mother taught children to love to dance.

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.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours.

With music, you often don’t have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don’t know why.

There’s nothing hippie about my picture of Christ. The Gospels paint a picture of a very demanding, sometimes divisive love, but love it is.

Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

You can’t deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one’s self.

Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?

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

The secret to humor is surprise.

To feel not only submitted but willing to be anything or nothing as the Lord wills it – this is, in truth, to sing a song to our Well Beloved.

Each faithful young woman in the Church proclaims that individual worth is one of her most cherished values.

In a long meter hymn, a singer – they call it ‚lays out a line.‘ And then the whole church joins in in repeating that line. And they form a wall of harmony so tight, you can’t wedge a pin between it.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

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

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

All mankind love a lover.

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

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.

The two things in the world we all share in this world are laughter and pain. We’ve all got problems. The levels of those problems vary, but we’ve all got problems. When you can take things that are painful and make them funny, that’s a gift – to you and your audience.

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.

No one loves the man whom he fears.