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

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin‘ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

We loved with a love that was more than love.

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

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

I think if you follow anyone home, whether they live in Houston or London, and you sit at their dinner table and talk to them about their mother who has cancer or their child who is struggling in school, and their fears about watching their lives go by, I think we’re all the same.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America – there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America – there’s the United States of America.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope.

The facts tell us that no religious Faith releases – or ever has released at any moment in History – a higher degree of warmth, a more intense dynamism of unification than the Christianity of our own day – and the more Catholic it is, the truer my words.

A president can ask for reconciliation in the racial conflict that divides Americans. But reconciliation comes only from the hearts of people.

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

We love things we love what they are.

No matter what, I always make it home for Christmas. I love to go to my Tennessee Mountain Home and invite all of my nieces and nephews and their spouses and kids and do what we all like to do – eat, laugh, trade presents and just enjoy each other… and sometimes I even dress up like Santa Claus!

Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer’s no. That’s not America. Is there something wrong with some seven-year-old Muslim American kid believing that he or she could be president?

I’m gonna make what I want to make, and other people are gonna like what they’re gonna like. It doesn’t really matter.

When I ask OGs why there’s so much division in the streets, nobody never really knows. But you know one thing that everybody always mention? A woman.

Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me.

People like music when they’re in love, but they don’t need it as much. You need music when you’re missing someone or you’re pining for someone or you’re forgetting someone or you’re trying to process what just happened.

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

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.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.

‚Young Indiana Jones’ was one of the happiest times I ever had, so I love television.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

Fear, separation, hate and anger come from the wrong view that you and the Earth are two separate entities, the Earth is only the environment. You are in the centre and you want to do something for the Earth in order for you to survive. That is a dualistic way of seeing.

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.

I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don’t know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.

Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?

Anywhere I go, there is always an incredible crowd that follows me. In Rome, as I land at the airport, even the men kiss me. I love Rome.

People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can’t knock it.

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author’s world.

When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

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!

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

Whether our forebears were strangers who crossed the Atlantic or the Pacific or the Rio Grande, we are here only because this country welcomed them in and taught them that to be an American is about something more than what we look like, or what our last names are, or how we worship.

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

The time is long overdue to stop looking for progress through racial or ethnic leaders. Such leaders have too many incentives to promote polarizing attitudes and actions that are counterproductive for minorities and disastrous for the country.

Our inquiring friends and neighbors not of our faith can also catch the wave. We encourage them to keep all that is good and true in their lives. And we invite them to receive more, especially the glorious truth that through God’s eternal plan, families can be together forever.

I always wanted to be loved.

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.