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

Tears are the silent language of grief.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o‘ the flatterer.

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‚yours,‘ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

‚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!

Intimates are predestined.

Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone – a memory.

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

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

Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That’s definitely my first response. I think change is more likely to happen if both partners have common language and a shared lens to see problems.

On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.

The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

After all, life hasn’t much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

It could be if I fight in front of one person or one million people. It’s still the same emotions.

Where thou art, that is home.

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

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

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.

Though lovers be lost, love shall not.

If merely ‚feeling good‘ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

I grew up reading science fiction.

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

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

When you face a ‚performance‘ that might provoke the ‚I’m scared‘ response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It’s more fun than ‚Dancing with the Stars!‘

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

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation.

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

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

Whatever came to mind, whatever came to hand, I would read.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone’s singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person.

I’m not searching for hard news; I’m not a journalist, but I’m interested in pushing to boundaries of where we can do the kind of stories that we want to do. I mean, it’s a big world and CNN has made it a lot bigger and they haven’t flinched.

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

Farewell, fair cruelty.

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

Love always ends differently and it always begins differently – especially with me.

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

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.

Love is trembling happiness.

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

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.

Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.