I was fortunate and I was lucky that I had a couple of people in my life who cared about me. I had good, loving parents.

Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?

The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.

My son has died of AIDS.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

I’m not a real movie star. I’ve still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

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.

Counsel with your parents is a privilege at any age.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.

It would have been difficult to have an ugly daughter.

I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

To be able to throw one’s self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman’s smile – that is happiness.

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?… It is necessary to accompany them with mercy.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

I care very deeply about the people at Tesla. I feel like I have a great debt to the people of Tesla who are making the company successful.

The people of Northern Ireland have sorted out my whole life.

When you have kids, you see life through different eyes. You feel love more deeply and are maybe a little more compassionate. It’s inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting.

I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, ‚Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.‘

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.

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

Love to everybody who is out there progressing and taking things to the next level.

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!

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I’m praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I’m grateful that I’m heard.

Fear is real, but so is love.

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

As I got older, my pops tried to keep me involved with the culture by telling me the stories of the conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea, how he came to America, and about our family back home, because all that side of my family – my aunties, grandparents – is in Africa.

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

The great thing about having a bunch of kids is they just remind you that you’re the person who takes them to go poop!

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.

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

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

For a long time I was scared I’d find out I was like my mother.

I’m one of the luckiest people on earth.

I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.

My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.

This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn’t want them to lose friends. He is his family’s hero.

I sang a song at my sister’s wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.

Dear friends, we may well sing to our Beloved when it is near the time of our departure. It draws near, and as it approaches, we must not dread it, but rather thank God for it.

The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.

I knew I was blessed with a gift of having both parents.

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

There’s a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It’s deceptive because when you have pride, you’re usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn’t sell well.

I’m just a friendly person; that runs in my family.

She got her looks from her father. He’s a plastic surgeon.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

My family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation.

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.

I am just happy to be part of the Nike family.

We should not look down on our first ancestors.

I don’t know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I’m a great gift to the world. I’ve been very fortunate.

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