I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

In constructing the plot and working it out with the proper diction, the poet should place the scene, as far as possible, before his eyes. In this way, seeing everything with the utmost vividness, as if he were a spectator of the action, he will discover what is in keeping with it, and be most unlikely to overlook inconsistencies.

To every soul that knows how to pray, to every soul that by faith comes to Jesus, the true mercy seat, divine sovereignty wears no dark and terrible aspect but is full of love.

I’m not denyin‘ the women are foolish. God Almighty made ‚em to match the men.

I was willing to accept what I couldn’t change.

The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you – black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.

The reason children accept discipline from their parents is because they know their parents love them.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

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

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

Just because something didn’t work out your way, or somebody disappointed you, that does not change who you are.

I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.

There is such a thing as old emotional pain living inside you. It is an accumulation of painful life experience that was not fully faced and accepted in the moment it arose. It leaves behind an energy form of emotional pain.

There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving – by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

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.

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston, I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song, and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, ‚Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.‘

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

God doesn’t love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.

My family is very good about visiting me, and other friends as well.

Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom… in a clarification of life – not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

There’s nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It’s a thing no married man knows anything about.

The essential lesson I’ve learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you’re not here as a human being only. You’re a spiritual being having a human experience.

I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn’t, then why would you say I am.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

As apostles and prophets, we are concerned not only for our children and grandchildren but for yours as well – and for each of God’s children.

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

I’m just a friendly person; that runs in my family.

Some people love so hard that they can’t control those emotions when they’re at their deepest point.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.

A friend doesn’t go on a diet because you are fat.

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

O‘ What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!

How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that justifies this goodness and this love?

The key to winning is choosing to do God’s will and loving others with all you’ve got.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

We all die, we all get sick, we all feel hunger and lust and pain, and therefore human life is consistent from one generation to the other. We all – most of us, anyway – want connections with other people and spend our lives looking for them.