I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women… no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.

I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.

I want people to follow their dreams, yes… but I’m not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers… I want to show them that there’s so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.

Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.

It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races.

Here’s what I’ve learned about deal-breakers. If you have enough natural chemistry with someone, you overlook every single thing that you said would break the deal.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

What the heck is true love? I remember feeling, back when I was 12 and ‚going‘ with this girl, ‚Is this true love?‘

I think that it’s okay to be mad at someone who hurt you. This isn’t about, like, the pageantry of trying to seem like nothing affects you.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.

Sometimes I’ve been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.

For me, it’s about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It’s where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that’s very important to me.

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

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

I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.

I try to see the good in everybody, and I don’t care who people are as long as they’re themselves, whatever that is.

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

I can’t help the way you was born if you was gay.

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there’s nothing really to talk about.

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

More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

No intelligent black man or black woman in his or her right black mind wants white boys and white girls coming to their homes to marry their black sons and daughters.

Men and women aren’t the same. And they won’t be the same. That doesn’t mean that they can’t be treated fairly.

One of the things that we’re trying to do with Creative Labs and all our experiences is explore things that aren’t all tied to Facebook identity. Some things will be, but not everything will have to be, because there are some sets of experiences that are just better with other identities.

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

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

If you’re white and you’re wrong, then you’re wrong; if you’re black and you’re wrong, you’re wrong. People are people. Black, blue, pink, green – God make no rules about color; only society make rules where my people suffer, and that why we must have redemption and redemption now.

I think, in politics, half the people are gonna like you, and half the people are not gonna like you, no matter what you do or what you say… It’s like there are no right answers. If there were, everyone would choose the right answers. They’re all opinions.

I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don’t think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.

All religions must be tolerated… for every man must get to heaven in his own way.

I don’t like being alone.

Part of me feels you can’t say you were truly in love if it didn’t last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that’s when I’ll know it’s real – because it lasted.

I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.

I boldly assert, in fact I think I know, that a lot of friendships and connections absolutely depend upon a sort of shared language, or slang. Not necessarily designed to exclude others, this can establish a certain comity and, even after a long absence, re-establish it in a second.

For me, one of the toughest things about Valentine’s Day is that it gets geared up as the day to profess your love. See, T-E-S-T – that’s a bad word that doesn’t go with L-O-V-E.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Creative people don’t behave very well generally. If you’re looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you’re gonna be depressed real fast. I don’t have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She’s my first priority.

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

A man’s only as old as the woman he feels.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

Funny is the world I live in. You’re funny, I’m interested. You’re not funny, I’m not interested.