I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

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

Justice… is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

The way to know life is to love many things.

I love Manchester. Everyone knows that – I have said it many times. Manchester is in my heart.

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

Only the really plain people know about love – the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

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.

My father wasn’t a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher – one of those Victorians, hard as iron – but my dad was tough enough.

The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.

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 cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else – I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

The heart is forever inexperienced.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

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.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

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!

When even one American – who has done nothing wrong – is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth – then all Americans are in peril.

Love can do much, but duty more.

You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

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

India does not need to become anything else. India must become only India. This is a country that once upon a time was called the golden bird.

Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.

Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness and moderation is certain and durable.

You’re innocent until proven guilty.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

Like every parent, when you start your family, your life completely changes. And you completely live for someone else. I find that the most extraordinary thing. Your life is handed over to someone else. From that moment on, they come first in every choice you make. It’s the most wonderful thing.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

I would like to be remembered as a guy who had a set of priorities, and was willing to live by those priorities. In terms of accomplishments, my biggest accomplishment is that I kept the country safe amidst a real danger.

It’s annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren’t they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.

If you don’t know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.

America is the greatest country in the world.

People like music when they’re in love, but they don’t need it as much. You need music when you’re missing someone or you’re pining for someone or you’re forgetting someone or you’re trying to process what just happened.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

Love is not consolation. It is light.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

I’m definitely gaining new fans, and that’s the key of any success… gain more love.

There are no rules when it comes to love.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

Fear is real, but so is love.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin‘ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

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

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.

My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I’ve had. And now that I’m in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won’t be half as much anger as there was.

Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what’s happening in Africa, and if we’re honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.