I know that a large part of my fan base is gay. They’ve shown me love from the start. I mean in this industry, everyone from my glam people to my dancers are gay. You can’t be homophobic in this line of work – I’m a pop star!

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

All information belongs to everybody all the time. It should be available. It should be accessible to the child, to the woman, to the man, to the old person, to the semiliterate, to the presidents of universities, to everyone. It should be open.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural.

‚Love Story‘ is actually about a guy that I almost dated. But when I introduced him to my family and my friends, they all said they didn’t like him. All of them!

I go through a lot of depression, and I know other people do, too, but I have an outlet that so many people don’t. If you have that inside of you and can’t get it out, what do you do?

If I’d married someone in show business, there’d be too much competition.

When I was growing up, there was nobody in my family – not even my mother – who I could look to and be like, ‚I know you’ve never said anything homophobic.‘ So, you know, you worry about people in the business who you’ve heard talk that way. Some of my heroes coming up talk recklessly like that.

I didn’t know any gay people in my childhood.

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you’d would wake up times and hope that the next day you’d be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.

Although the circumstances of our lives may seem very disengaged, with me standing here as the First Lady of the United States of America and you just getting through school, I want you to know we have very much in common. For nothing in my life ever would have predicted that I would be standing here as the first African-American First Lady.

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

The important thing is to be in love with something.

I love the attention but I don’t like too much of it.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

Everyone is different. Everyone has different teams they’ve played on, coaches they’ve played for.

All of us are so mixed. My great-grandfather was white.

Friends accept you the way you are.

Where love is, there God is also.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

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.

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die – and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

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.

Our goal in the ’70s was to end the closed door era. There were so many things that were off limits to women: policing, firefighting, mining, piloting planes.

One thing I just want to say to the military families – while you might not wear a uniform, I know – we all know, the nation knows – that you serve and sacrifice right alongside of your loved ones. And we are so grateful and proud of all of you for your service to this nation.

I love life because what more is there?

I know love is the answer.

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

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing – hopefully.

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

Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.

I like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies – or else? The chain reaction of evil – hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars – must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

God to me is love.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

No matter what, I always make it home for Christmas. I love to go to my Tennessee Mountain Home and invite all of my nieces and nephews and their spouses and kids and do what we all like to do – eat, laugh, trade presents and just enjoy each other… and sometimes I even dress up like Santa Claus!

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.

Feeling like you’re respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.

There is no love of life without despair of life.

As a father and now a grandfather to three wonderful grandchildren, I know how magical the first year of a child’s life is but also how much hard work it takes. Being able to spend as much time as possible with your loved ones is absolutely vital, especially early on.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action, which produces further confusion, further misery.

Marriage is scary to me, man.

If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England – you couldn’t have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge? We shouldn’t marginalise people for this. They must be integrated into society.

The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes – or just by staring into space.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

Your teammates give you the confidence. They give me the confidence all year, all postseason.

The painter who is familiar with the nature of the sinews, muscles, and tendons, will know very well, in giving movement to a limb, how many and which sinews cause it; and which muscle, by swelling, causes the contraction of that sinew; and which sinews, expanded into the thinnest cartilage, surround and support the said muscle.

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

I love to play. And fortunately, I don’t know a lot of musicians that suck. I know a bunch of really good ones, and they’re always up for playing.

I’m sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime.

For all the supporters of Tesla over the years, and it’s been several years now and there have been some very tough times, I’d just like to say thank you very much. I deeply appreciate the support, particularly through the darkest times.

I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.