If you look at the movie ‚Belly,‘ I identify with Sincere the most. I am a gangster. I love my lady to death. I’m not in the game for the wrong reasons. I’m not in the game for the glory. I’m in the game to survive so the people that I love could be straight. I’m a highly intelligent individual.

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

I think I have had so much blessing – I’ve had my brother, who was brilliant – I think my family came closest to making a genius when they made my brother – Bailey was just all of that. He loved me.

If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.

I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another.

I love the ending of a movie where two people end up together. Preferably if there’s rain and an airport or running or a confession of love.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

They say somebody’s ‚street smart.‘ I feel like, if I got intelligence, it’s just a country smart.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

Certainly it is valuable to a trained writer to crash in an aircraft which burns. He learns several important things very quickly. Whether they will be of use to him is conditioned by survival. Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer.

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who’ll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you’re in the wrong house, that’s what it means.

Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

When you are a beginning film maker you are desperate to survive. The most important thing in the end is survival and being able to get to your next picture.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

Heavenly Father loves every one of His children. After all, He is their Father.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

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

Man is the only animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain – we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

What I’ve discovered is that in art, as in music, there’s a lot of truth-and then there’s a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It’s the moment that the audience falls in love.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies – or else? The chain reaction of evil – hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars – must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.

We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned… a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

I wouldn’t be here today if it were not for the NHS. I have received a large amount of high-quality treatment without which I would not have survived.

I never fall in love.

How much better it would be if all could be more aware of God’s providence and love and express that gratitude to Him.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.

Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night’s date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn’t think of looking at another woman.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

As a sportsperson, the best thing is people recognising you and loving you for what you do. For me, glamour is 100 people in the hotel feeling happy to see you.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

It takes a smart man to play dumb.

My mom and I have always been there for each other. We had some tough times, but she was always there for me.

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.

I’m such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.

I wasn’t very good in academics, but I could have been if I could have studied well. I was a smart kid.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

I’m not claiming divinity. I’ve never claimed purity of soul. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can… But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

I’ve been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she’ll kill me.

People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.

In all my wild mountaineering, I have enjoyed only one avalanche ride; and the start was so sudden, and the end came so soon, I thought but little of the danger that goes with this sort of travel, though one thinks fast at such times.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

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

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

May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.