I don’t want enemies. I want friends, and I want them in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and loving whoever they want to.

I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

I always like to create things that get attention. It used to be a problem when I wasn’t famous. Now, I can do whatever I want and people have to accept it.

If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: ‚This is my country.‘

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.

In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.

I do have a lot of gays in my family now, but some will never come out.

Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.

I really, truly believe that writing comes out of the body; of course, the mind is working as well, but it’s a double thing and that doubleness is united. I mean, you can’t separate persona from psyche; you just can’t do it.

I love to flirt, and I’ve never met a man I didn’t like.

To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.

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

When you’re supposed to be close and friends in the film, the moment you’re talking as friends off the set, it makes it that much better when you’re filming.

You can’t choose up sides on a round world.

I’ve married somebody who I knew for 14 years. So, I’m just living with a friend. All through my ups and downs in football, from winning the I-League to losing the ISL final, she has been a source of great support.

The Son of God became incarnate in the souls of men to instill the feeling of brotherhood. All are brothers and all children of God.

True friends stab you in the front.

I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It’s hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.

A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few.

Do not rebuke mockers, or they will hate you; rebuke the wise, and they will love you.

My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

I’m drawn to bad romances.

Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else’s religion, but he’ll accept his gold.

The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but the Pope has the duty, in Christ’s name, to remind the rich to help the poor, to respect them, to promote them.

Taylor Swift’s audience can listen to me, but so can the street kids. I want to touch it all.

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.

I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there’s no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That’s all crap.

Where love is, there God is also.

Man’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion’s roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

Everyone has been in love, at some point or another.

When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.

I remember when I was in high school I didn’t have a new dress for each special occasion. The girls would bring the fact to my attention, not always too delicately. The boys, however, never bothered with the subject. They were my friends, not because of the size of my wardrobe but because they liked me.

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people. The image of the Statue of Liberty with Emma Lazarus‘ famous poem. She lifts her lamp and welcomes people to the golden shore, where they will not experience prejudice because of the color of their skin, the religious faith that they follow.

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.

Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It’s one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

I see the face of a child. He lives in a great city. He is black. Or he is white. He is Mexican, Italian, Polish. None of that matters. What matters, he’s an American child.

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

We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

As a sportsperson, the best thing is people recognising you and loving you for what you do. For me, glamour is 100 people in the hotel feeling happy to see you.

Friends accept you the way you are.

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

You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don’t accept it, it’s their loss.

In the flush of love’s light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.