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.

I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes – or just by staring into space.

We have practiced diplomacy since the very beginning of the nation. Sometimes it has not worked, and we’ve had to go to war. I always believe you should try to find peace and reconciliation before conflict. That has been the approach I’ve taken.

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.

It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.

It takes three to make a child.

I really do encourage other manufacturers to bring electric cars to market. It’s a good thing, and they need to bring it to market and keep iterating and improving and make better and better electric cars, and that’s what going to result in humanity achieving a sustainable transport future. I wish it was growing faster than it is.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

Knowing that the time to sleep has come, the Lord sleeps, and does well in sleeping. Often, when we have been fretting and worrying, we should have glorified God far more had we literally gone to sleep.

My production and songwriting and the environment around those vocals are not inspired by R&B at all.

Marriage is scary to me, man.

Kids will remind you that, even though you’ve gone down a road 100 times, it’s brand new for them – and that’s healthy.

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

I got to Africa. I got the opportunity to go and learn, not about any animal, but chimpanzees. I was living in my dream world, the forest in Gombe National Park in Tanzania. It was Tanganyika when I began.

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.

In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.

At the end of the day, we started playing football because we loved it.

The dispersal of juniper seeds is effected by the plum and cherry plan of hiring birds at the cost of their board, and thus obtaining the use of a pair of extra good wings.

Fear is real, but so is love.

Where there is love there is life.

Fame may go by and – so long, I’ve had you.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That’s how the human species has done as well as it has.

My mom was a terrible parent of young children. And thank God – I thank God every time I think of it – I was sent to my paternal grandmother. Ah, but my mother was a great parent of a young adult.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.

I give the children education.

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

Christmas is joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace.

Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub.

As a mom, I know it is my responsibility, and no one else’s, to raise my kids. But we have to ask ourselves, what does it mean when so many parents are finding their best efforts undermined by an avalanche of advertisements aimed at our kids.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

Of all nature’s gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

I’m glad to see that BMW is bringing an electric car to market. That’s cool.

I love everything about my job, except being away from the kids.

To be admitted to Nature’s hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

Gays are some of the nicest, kindest, most loving people in the world.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

Actually, you have to be a little bit in love with your leading man and vice versa. If you’re going to portray love, you have to feel it. You can’t do it any other way. But you don’t carry it beyond the set.

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 moment you have a child, in an instant your life is not for you, and your life is completely, 100 percent dedicated to another human being, and they will always come first. It changes you forever. It changes your perspective, and it gives you a nice purpose and focus.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

I love our daughters more than anything in the world – more than life itself. And while that may not be the first thing that some folks want to hear from an Ivy-league-educated lawyer, it is truly who I am. So for me, being Mom-in-Chief is, and always will be, job number one.

When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection, love is born.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

I think ‚The Color Purple‘ is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe.

These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I’m not downplaying that.

I have a lot of other stuff to accomplish before I get to kids. Whenever the time is right, I’ll just know. If I had a girl, she’d probably be really rebellious. She would be like a bundle of karma. I would love to bring them up in Barbados.