I thank God I’m myself and for the life I’m given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I’m trying to say is I’m trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours.

I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don’t know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.

I love being American, and I love family. I love having a family, and I feel so blessed, and I feel like God gave me exactly what I wanted, so now I have to do the right thing in God’s eyes also. Just follow what God wants me to do.

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.

My lighter, more superficial side will always steal a march on the deeper side and therefore always win. You can’t imagine how often I’ve tried to push away this Anne, which is only half of what is known as Anne – to beat her down, hide her.

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we’re small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.

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

After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.

If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

All the goodness I have within me is totally from the Lord alone. When I sin, it is from me and is done on my own, but when I act righteously, it is wholly and completely of God.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Smiles are the language of love.

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

There is no such thing as a lovers‘ oath.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

Humans are amphibians – half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

We all self-conscious. I’m just the first to admit it.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

Alimony – the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.

Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I’ve never been in love before – I don’t really know? I think I have. I guess it’s subjective in that way.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

I love to sit and eat quietly and enjoy each bite, aware of the presence of my community, aware of all the hard and loving work that has gone into my food.

I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don’t just want to possess it, it will find you.

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

The one badge of Christian discipleship is not orthodoxy but love.

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

I’ve had faith my whole life that there was someone looking out for me, a spirit guide, a soul guide.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

Love is easy, and I love writing. You can’t resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you’re in love.

Your friend is your needs answered.

As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.

By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died.

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

I want someone who can trust that my big hands are going to take care of them.

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

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 was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it’s absolutely true.

When people say ‚marriage‘ to me… It’s always a means to an end. Everyone’s so in a rush to define the relationship.

Many Tibetans sacrifice their lives.

Our faith is released as we say, pray and do the Word.

I’m not concerned with people seeing me in a certain way. Some people see me as a kid, some people see me as an adult. But I’m seriously not going to complain how anybody sees me, as long as they see me.

I can’t deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you.

Delhi means everything to me. This city has given me everything, and I love it.

There is a ‚sanctity‘ involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

I’ve always kinda been a little outcast myself, a little oddball, doin‘ my thing, my own way. And it’s been hard for me to, to be accepted, certainly in the early years of my life.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolation since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy His marvellous Presence.

As you read or listen to God’s Word and spend time talking to Him in prayer, your spirit will eventually become stronger than your flesh.

Great loves too must be endured.

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

I love our daughters more than anything in the world – more than life itself. And while that may not be the first thing that some folks want to hear from an Ivy-league-educated lawyer, it is truly who I am. So for me, being Mom-in-Chief is, and always will be, job number one.

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.

Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?