Intimates are predestined.

I’m happiest with my family around me.

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

Alimony – the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

In hip-hop, there’s not a lot of love. There’s not a lot of love being spread. It’s always like ‚I’m stuntin‘ on you raps, or I’m better than you raps.‘ It’s not a lot of ‚Yo man, I idolize you raps.‘

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.

The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.

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

If a man’s character is to be abused there’s nobody like a relative to do the business.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can’t put a dollar sign on.

My wife and I don’t compete. We know each other’s preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That’s what friends do.

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Love is the one wild card.

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I’m not leading them to some false God or something like that.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

They are resilient children, but they are children, and as much as they need help to understand the hard truths in life, they also need what we all need – protection and love.

All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I’d worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: ‚Don’t hide these things from me. I’d rather you ask me these things straight out, and I’ll answer all your questions.‘

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.

The ultimate connection is when you are connected to the creator of the universe.

The wisest hustler can suddenly fall for the worst tramp and lose all of his money on her. The hustler is aware of his own weaknesses and openings to con. This awareness is his edge.

It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

Sometimes I’ve been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.

When the people you love are gone, you’re alone.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

My wife has about everything I can think of.

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

I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back.

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.

If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.

I believe the destiny of your generation – and your nation – is a rendezvous with excellence.

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.

How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that justifies this goodness and this love?

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.

Modern science says: ‚The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.‘ From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

I’d love to date somebody cool, fun, funny.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I’ve never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line’s always been really blurred for me. I’ll hang out with them after the show. I’ll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I’ll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes.

I feel like I’m the kind of guy that would have kids before getting married. The first thing would be kids.

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.