I think ‚The Color Purple‘ is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

If every man loves his mother, he’s going to treat the ladies right, with love and respect.

When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection, love is born.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, ‚I love you.‘

Whether a person is straight or gay, Republican, Democrat, good person, not a good person, they’re all welcome, because to me, church is a place you’re supposed to get healed and whole and loved.

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what’s in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.

I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset – tears are words waiting to be written.

Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

The sadness of the women’s movement is that they don’t allow the necessity of love. See, I don’t personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.

Crazy players love me. I don’t know why.

I dislike Allegory – the conscious and intentional allegory – yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language.

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

Man is the only animal that blushes – or needs to.

Ever since I dated a woman, I know what it is to grab a curve on a woman’s body. Skinny’s not fine when the lights are low.

My favourite poem is the one that starts ‚Thirty days hath September‘ because it actually tells you something.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

The best books… are those that tell you what you know already.

We humans are self-absorbed by nature, and spend most of our time focusing inwardly on our emotions, on our wounds, on our fantasies.

One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.

I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background, and I think the greatest thing to do is to pray that God will give you love for them, and I do.

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.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.

You see, at the end of the day, my most important title is still ‚mom-in-chief.‘ My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world.

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

U2 is an original species… there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.

The fame isn’t important to me. It’s a blessing to have. Having so many people that support me, that love me and listen to my music, is beautiful.

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.

It’s impossible to live a life totally free of feelings. God created all of us to be emotional creatures, and feelings are a big part of our lives.

I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other – and we still are.

I am a very emotional guy. What I love, I do with all I have.

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.

The only big things I’ve purchased are my dad’s heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

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.

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship – never.

It’s often just enough to be with someone. I don’t need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You’re not alone.

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

It’s okay to eat fish because they don’t have any feelings.

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

When you stop caring what people think, you lose your capacity for connection. When you’re defined by it, you lose our capacity for vulnerability.

You can write a song about being in love with someone, but you don’t have to be in love with anyone.

Football is a sad game.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

I love sleep; it’s my favorite.

I put out one album one week, and I’m already worried about the next one. I feel a lot of emotion throughout the course of a day. But not to the point where you need to be worried about me.