I was adored once too.

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

It’s important to love in hip hop.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you’re making a mistake but let you go on with it, that’s when it ruins your mind state as an artist.

When I was younger, I used to have more flair, I used to do more tricks, the nutmegs, the step-overs.

Any man who doesn’t love his mama can’t be no friend of mine.

Every man’s reputation proceeds from those of his own household.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness.

I’ve known and continue to know every one of these major world leaders by their first names, and I have access to them.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.

In God’s family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‚I’ll buy a million dollars‘ worth of love.‘ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

I don’t want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

I’m working at trying to be a Christian, and that’s serious business. It’s like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy – it’s serious business.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

When I went back to my old high school, all these kids looking at me like I’m the real big homie, the same way I look at Jay Z, Nas, or Dr. Dre. You would’ve thought Michael Jackson walked through that joint off the excitement that they had.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

People are more aware now of cities and of different ways of life. I suppose the writing I do is a bit in the past, and I’m not sure it’s the kind of writing I would do if I were starting now.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me.

There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they’re already asleep.

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

Love is the one wild card.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

My whole life and my whole career, even through my music, I tell people: let’s unify; let’s show more love.

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature’s gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

Agape, the love of each one of us for the other, from the closest to the furthest, is in fact the only way that Jesus has given us to find the way of salvation and of the Beatitudes.

Women – always in trouble with them, but can’t live without them.

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

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘

Most people would rather give than get affection.

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now.

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

I married my best friend that happens to be a girl.

I don’t want enemies. I want friends, and I want them in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and loving whoever they want to.

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.